The National Audubon Society’s “Wildflowers of North America” (Knopf, 2023) is a tour de force in the realm of plant guides. Full-page profiles of more than 850 species are included, each of which ...

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 ...

Chicken of the woods growing on an ash stump. My wife, Elaine, and I are enthusiastic pursuers of wild edibles throughout the year. These natural foods are healthy, tasty, and, well, free. What’s more ...

When you picture the perfect garden, perhaps you imagine tidy, weed-free rows with ample space between plants. While that may be aesthetically pleasing, it’s not very ecologically functional. In wild ...

People have used plants as medicine for a long time. Today, they may come in the form of supplements to improve health or to treat health problems. Wild lettuce is one of these plants. Wild lettuce is ...

When you think of the 2.2 million acres of state forests in Pennsylvania, trees come to mind. After all, when the Pennsylvania Division of Forestry was formed in 1895, the mission was all about woods ...