Mushroom hunting is increasingly popular. A new wave of foraging groups by and for people of color could also help close the ...

Chef Erin Miller’s eyes lit up when she discovered a massive hen-of-the-wood mushroom while foraging in Lincoln on a crisp September morning. She knew exactly where the beachball-size mushroom was ...

When mentioned by name, “chicken of the woods” might induce a humorous mental image of a fat, feathery chicken surrounded by trees, but here in Missouri it refers to something else entirely. “Many ...

Collecting wild mushrooms, berries and other foods from public forests and parks has become so popular that state and federal agencies are imposing more restrictions. By Jim Robbins Beneath a row of ...

Picture this: You're in a forest with a wicker basket in-hand. Fallen leaves crunch, crunch, crunch as you meander through the dense brush. Birds chirp overhead, while insects scuttle across the ...

Jun. 17—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — It's a different world, gourmet mushroom foraging. It's a world, for example, where slugs are fast and must be raced, and it's a world communicated most clearly in Latin.

Zach Papaleoni recently walked through Whisky Hollow Nature Preserve in Van Buren, scanning the forest floor. He bent down and plucked a small, tan-colored mushroom from the ground and twirled it in ...

Fungi of all shapes, colors and sizes blanketed the Elbe Hills State Forest on Oct. 2. Some mushrooms were dark, with brown-yellow caps. Others were flatter and white, sprouting from rotting logs, or ...

Foragers look at late summer rains like dinner bells signaling a feast. When moisture collects in soil and decaying hardwoods, fungal mycelium sends up heavenly fruiting bodies that we like to call ...