Australians are being warned against taking part in the viral trend of “mushroom foraging” after a food safety body deemed it potentially life-threatening. The alert comes less than a year after three ...

Collecting wild mushrooms, berries and other foods from public forests and parks has become so popular that state and federal agencies are imposing more restrictions. By Jim Robbins Beneath a row of ...

California officials are warning foragers after an outbreak of poisoning linked to wild mushrooms that has killed one adult and caused severe liver damage in several patients, including children. The ...

When the tide rolls in and the forest canopy begins to thin, coastal foraging tours take on a new kind of magic. Visitors who join these guided adventures along America’s shoreline can hunt for wild ...

Mowing the yard outside his home in Windham, Ohio, William D. Hickman discovered what he thought would make a delicious addition to his dinner. A beautiful handful of mushrooms had popped out of the ...

For Tony Cineus, finding the perfect mushroom is almost like falling in love: “The first time I found a morel, it was like my heart dropped. … The world paused for a second, and I just felt like I was ...

Like many mushroom harvesters, I got interested in foraging for fungi during the COVID-19 pandemic. I had been preparing for a summer of field work studying foraged desert plants in a remote part of ...