Both spruce and pine needles can be made into a tea rich in vitamin C. No matter the season, foraging is like a treasure hunt. Sometimes you get the prize, and sometimes you don’t. Winter for me in ...

When winter sets in, it’s easy to think the garden is off-limits until spring. But if you look a little closer, there are still plenty of treasures to find outdoors, even in the coldest months. It can ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

The garden might look like it’s taking a long nap under a blanket of frost, but nature’s pantry is still open for business. Winter foraging might sound like an activity reserved for the truly ...

Walk past an uncut patch of big bluestem in January and you’ll hear it before you see it. The dry stalks rustle, a sparrow ...

On a recent visit to Tilden Regional Park’s Little Farm, we spied an emerald patch of a familiar plant with parasol-shaped leaves. Could it be? It looked like miner’s lettuce, which in my two years of ...

Thanks to an unusually wet winter, mushroom hunters in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond will be greatly rewarded. Here’s a primer for first-timers. Credit...Ian C. Bates for The New York Times ...