Close-up of raspberries and a few green leaves - Valentyn Volkov/Shutterstock You're trudging through the underbrush on a hike when you decide to take a break. As you power up with some trail mix, you ...

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 ...

Step into the forest with me, dear traveler. I am the princess of these berry-bright woods, and I must tell you a secret woven through every branch and blossom. Foraging for wild berries is one of ...

Anytime from early spring to early summer is good to dig and move black raspberries (‘Rubus occidentalis’) and other wild brambles. I am interested in cultivating my wild black raspberries so I will ...

Wineberry, shown in this undated photo, is a raspberry native to Japan and China and naturalized in America. Wineberry's flowers aren't going to catch your eye, but its gracefully arching stems will.

Picking your own food in the wild produces no easier or tastier result than it does with berries. And there’s more than you might think out there, both in terms of sheer volume and types. Here’s how ...

Growing raspberries takes a bit of patience — but, if you are a lover of that deep berry flavor, that’s no deterrent. Most raspberries need time to become established before they fruit, according to ...

Winter brings with it a blanket of cold and white and a time of quiet slumber for many species of flora and fauna. Aspens have long since shed their golden leaves, wild raspberry, strawberry and ...

Spotted wing drosophila, a pest native to Southeast Asia, was detected on raspberry fruits by a local gardener in Brown County. More than 45 states including Wisconsin have reported the presence of ...