Thanks to an unusually wet winter, mushroom hunters in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond will be greatly rewarded. Here’s a primer for first-timers. Credit...Ian C. Bates for The New York Times ...

Remember those seaside holidays when you spent every spare minute squinting, net poised, into the mysterious depths of a rock pool? You'd lever up a stone. Look, shrimps! And a green shore crab, ...

• Lecture about his foraging project, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Trilogy Sanctuary, 7650 Girard Ave., Suite 400, La Jolla. • Full-day foraging workshop, 10 a.m. to ...

It's a windy January morning on Morfa Bychan beach [also known as Pendine], in Carmarthenshire where I'm being taught how to pick mussels straight off the rocks, on a coastal foraging experience with ...

I spent the summer foraging, like an early hominid with clothes. It didn’t matter that the first thing I learned about that daunting pastime of hunter-gatherers and visionary chefs was that nature’s ...

As seaweed continues to gain popularity for its nutritional benefits and culinary versatility, more people are skipping the dried stuff in the grocery store and going straight to the source: the ocean ...

Professional forager Dave Odd confidently declared he could start a Sunday tour at Wilson Skate Park by identifying five edible plants right underneath his feet. Taking a step forward, he pointed to a ...