A Durango native, Katrina Blair grew up fascinated with edible plants found in the wild. “I camped out a whole summer after high school eating mostly wild edibles,” she said. She has since earned ...

Karla Griesbaum teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander how to find forgeable plants in nature The wild is full of edible plants—if you know what to look for! In this video, we take you on a journey ...

Can we come up with a tasty, healthful salad, just by foraging the urban neighborhood around NPR's Washington, D.C., office? That would be the ultimate in locally grown food. But most of us don't know ...

Many wild edible plants have poisonous doppelgangers ... field guides suggest ensuring the water is clean and rinsing thoroughly before eating. In the U.S., it is illegal to forage on private property ...

Secondly, just because animals eat a plant doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Birds eat berries of poison ivy, and if humans consumed the same berries they could develop an internal poison ivy rash. If ...

Once dismissed as backyard nuisances that needed constant elimination, wild plants like dandelion, purslane, and chickweed are now being celebrated on gourmet restaurant menus and trending across ...

Wild gorillas in Gabon eat several of the same plants traditional healers in the region use, and these plants show antibacterial properties in lab dishes, scientists found. In a new study, compounds ...