VAIL VALLEY, Colorado -In the Colorado Rockies and the Vail Valley, wild mushroom foragers do not share the whereabouts of their secret stash. And so it is in Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and the ...

As a kid, I remember watching time-lapse videos of a flower blooming or of the sun racing across the sky. Of course, things don't happen that way in nature with one possible exception: sprouting, ...

Fiddleheads are a taste of spring in the Northeast and some areas of the Midwest and Northwest. Although these fern heads do grow wild in some areas of the country, backyard gardeners can also grow ...

When the thaw of winter is finally over and spring rolls around, fiddlehead ferns are one of the first things to pop up — the curled fronds of ferns yet to unfurl into their full, leafy shape. One of ...

Wild edibles are a joy to find, when identified correctly. The feeling of euphoria can easily misguide the senses into confusing false varieties for the real thing. Morels and Fiddleheads are two ...

I walk the trail searching for tiny green curls among the towering spruce trees popping up through the sphagnum moss. I’m looking for fiddleheads. Actually, the common name for the curly top of all ...

For foragers, spring is synonymous with fiddleheads, or the furled tips of ferns. Because fiddleheads are such an obvious choice of topic at this time of year, I determine I should go a step further. ...

A dish made of fiddlehead ferns, duck confit and pasta is prepared by O'Malley. Just after the snow melts, but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy ...

People venturing out onto Anchorage trails may have noticed tightly wound green coils emerging out of last year’s dead leaves. Some people are collecting them, and others are posting their findings on ...

Of all the wild edible plants that grow in our country, the ancient fiddlehead ferns are the most unique and flavorful. They are the unfurled new leaves of a fern. Reproducing through spores, not ...

In the Colorado Rockies, wild mushroom foragers do not share the whereabouts of their secret stash. And so it is in Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and the Great Lakes States – but for these residents, ...