The North Texas Mycological Association leads guided mushroom foraging trips most months, helping to expand people's ...

Among some of the world's top chefs, there's a funky trend underway. It's called foraging. They harvest edible ingredients growing wild in their community and use them in their cooking. Here's my ...

The Woodlands is home to a growing number of critically acclaimed restaurants. But what’s growing on the side of its roadways can often be just as delicious. Spring resident Mark Vorderbruggen as been ...

When I tell someone I’m a hobbyist forager, the responses range from shock to wonder, confusion, and suspicion. I tell them that this February, when Texas froze over and the power grid failed ...

Prepare to take a walk on the wild side in nature's free grocery store. Research chemist Mark "Merriwether" Vorderbruggen will present a foraging workshop and lecture on edible plants at 8 a.m. Jan.

If Nicholas Hall's post on foraging, "Indigenous Bounties," piqued your interest about scouring your own back yard (or front yard) for tasty treats, pay attention. Meriwether's Foraging Texas will be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chrissy Tracey is a Connecticut-based food writer and vegan chef. A gorgeous cluster of Chicken of the woods mushroom (Laetiporus ...

You have to look hard to find Chorioactis geaster, the official state mushroom of Texas. Also known as the devil’s cigar or the Texas star, the fungus hides under layers of leaves and plants. Its dark ...

In only a few short months, Natasha Calvert has crisscrossed the state, from north Texas to the Rio Grande Valley, from the Hill Country to the Brazos Valley. But she's only just begun putting mileage ...

In my neighborhood, dogs and possums have cornered the market on urban foraging. From the orange tree next door, peeled, mutilated rinds littered my backyard, left behind by the family of possums ...

Vol. 15, Special Issue 9: Proceedings of the 6th Big Thicket Science Conference: Watersheds and Waterflow (2016), pp. 76-89 (14 pages) Picoides borealis (Red-cockaded Woodpecker) is an endangered bird ...