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Foraging & Gardening

The best tips and strategies for foraging and gardening.

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A close-up of death cap mushrooms.
Foraging & Gardening

Officials Beg Californians to Stop Picking Wild Mushrooms Amid Record Number of Poisonings

By Dac Collins

A group of foragers show off their morel harvest.
Foraging & Gardening

Minnesota Mushroom Hunters Haul in 1,500 Morels from One Spot

By Dac Collins

Hand full of wild strawberries with leaf
Foraging & Gardening

Here’s How Your Granddaddy Foraged for Nuts, Berries, and Fruits to Live Off the Land

By Bill Scifres

A bunch of poisonous or toxic plants silhouetted on a sludge-green background.
Foraging & Gardening

These Are the 12 Most Dangerous Plants Hiding in Plain Sight. How Many Can You Identify?

By Craig Caudill

Giant Hogweed in a river bed
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‘My Face Started Peeling.’ This Weed Is 20 Feet Tall, Causes Chemical Burns, and Might Be in Your Local Woods

By Natalie Krebs

A child holds up a giant morel mushroom with several huge morels sprawled across a tailgate.
Foraging & Gardening

Young Mushroom Hunter Finds a Giant Morel the Size of His Head

By Alice Jones Webb

Morel mushrooms growing in moss
Foraging & Gardening

How to Find More Morel Mushrooms This Spring

By Gary Garth, Matthew Every

pawpaw fruit
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Pawpaw Fruit: Here’s How (and Why) to Forage for Pawpaw This Fall

By Scott Einsmann, Tim MacWelch

A knife beside a morel cut in half in preparation for cooking morel mushroom recipes.
Foraging & Gardening

The Best Morel Mushroom Recipes

By Katie Hill

A morel mushroom on a normal camera and a thermal imaging camera.
Foraging & Gardening

Watch: Man Uses Thermal to Find Morels, Gets Skewered on Instagram

By Katie Hill

A man fells a tree.
Foraging & Gardening

How to Fell a Tree

By Dac Collins

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Foraging & Gardening

Naked Witches Caught on Camera, or the Greatest Trail Cam Prank of All Time?

By Katie Hill

types of poisonous mushrooms
Foraging & Gardening

5 Poisonous Mushrooms You Should Learn to Identify

By Katie Hill

porcini and chanterelle mushrooms
Foraging & Gardening

How to Identify 6 Types of Edible Mushrooms

By Katie Hill

poisonous yew kills wildlife
Foraging & Gardening

Poisonous Yew: This Backyard Ornamental Kills Wildlife—and Everything Else

By Katie Hill

Morel mushroom hunters from Iowa
Foraging & Gardening

Two Iowa Men Find Nearly 200 Pounds of Morels

By Wade Thiel

Find a plate full of morels jsut walking around the block.
Foraging & Gardening

The Ultimate Guide to Finding Morel Mushrooms in Your Subdivision

By Joe Genzel

To find arrowheads study up on the region you live in and see if native tribe once inhabited the same area.
Foraging & Gardening

How to Hunt for Arrowheads

By Joe Weimer

pokeweed
Foraging & Gardening

6 Most Common Mistakes Rookie Foragers Make

By Tim MacWelch

Similar in nutrient profile to hair and fur, feathers can also be buried in the garden or tossed into the compost pile.
Foraging & Gardening

8 Wild Game and Fish Parts That Will Fertilize Your Garden

By Tim MacWelch