Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peaches, watermelon, and berries are known worldwide as some of the summer bounties of the South, but those who grew up here are ...

video: Wild fruits from Southern Africa show good potential to supplement diets with essential amino acids, researchers from the University of Johannesburg have shown. All of the 14 species studied ...

Are wild cherries edible? Wild cherries are one of the most widespread wild shrubs throughout all of North America, according to botanists. The Prunus genus not only includes all wild and domestic ...

Chacha Rioba (left) and James Momanyi sell Cape gooseberries at Sachang'wan along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway on Tuesday. [Julius Chepkwony, Standard] With three bundles of Cape gooseberries dangling ...

Down east Maine is downright sleepy in winter. Once snow blankets the barrens, Wyman’s agronomist Bruce Hall says, “it seems like the only buzz happening around here is at the high-school basketball ...

One of my most recent nature hikes did not take me to my backwater cabin, Whitewater Park, or the Root River bluff country. Instead, I spent an hour with friend Paul Thompson hiking along the edge of ...

During the winter, many species of birds rely on seeds and fruits. Seeds can be hard to see and identify unless the bird is sitting on the food plant, such as a wild sunflower. Fruit, on the other ...

Last summer, the wild blueberry fields at Crystal Spring Farm turned red too soon. Severe drought had gripped most of the ...