Few foods look more fetching on the plate than fiddleheads, those vibrant green coils that emerge in moist forests each spring. Aptly named, a fiddlehead is the new growth of a fern, with a curled ...

Few foods look more fetching on the plate than fiddleheads, those vibrant green coils that emerge in moist forests each spring. Aptly named, a fiddlehead is the new growth of a fern, with a curled ...

I’m a couple months into my first Spring season of foraging for mushrooms and other wild edibles. I’m still alive and I’m not on a liver transplant waiting list so I figure I’m off to a good start.

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On a recent Tuesday in April, Dan Cahill, land steward at Burlington’s Parks, Recreation & Waterfront department, squatted in the woods of the city’s Intervale, digging with a hand in the dead leaves.

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Editor’s note: We highly recommend listening to this story. Somewhere off the highway in Western New Hampshire, I’m meeting with a group of foragers in a parking lot at an undisclosed location. Lush ...

With the rebirth of spring comes a succulent fern with a rather comical-sounding name which pairs well with its outward appearance: the fiddlehead. This curly fern is quite distinctive, and is in high ...

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