One person’s weeds are another person’s dinner, and burdock (Arctium) is a perfect example of this. Although it is routinely weeded out as an invasive species, in Japan it is cultivated as the ...

Anishinaabe chef Shawn Adler has been harvesting wild edibles since his mother first showed him how as a child. In each episode of Forage, he teaches us how to source in-season ingredients from our ...

After plunging a spade into a patch of soil, Lynn Landes jumps on it several times, landing her full weight on it each time to drive it deep into the soil. Determined, she begins to wedge a burdock ...

The other day, a lady was proud to show me her patch of wild rhubarb that just popped up this year. However, after I flipped the leaf over to see the white underside, I had to inform her that her ...

Past the basketball courts and picnic benches, around the pond and over the bridge, then under it, there are watercress growing — pretty little mustard greens with the finishing heat of a radish.

My grandmother would be horrified to know that I’m wild about nettle pesto, give ramp butter to friends and that stir-fry ...

Burdock (Arctium lappa) is a biennial herb belonging to the Asteraceae family, making it a close botanical relative of sunflowers and daisies. It is widely distributed across Northern Asia, Europe, ...

"Nature seems partial to the burdock. What extra pains she seems to have taken to perpetuate this worse than useless plant! Every man’s hand is against it, and nearly every animal has reason to detest ...