There are millions of plants on our planet, and inevitably, species from the same family end up looking alike. Wild plants aren't pre-labeled like produce found in a grocery store, and identifying ...

Chicken of the woods growing on an ash stump. My wife, Elaine, and I are enthusiastic pursuers of wild edibles throughout the year. These natural foods are healthy, tasty, and, well, free. What’s more ...

My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family in rural Whitefield, Maine. This happened in the 1940s. By then, ...

Grapevines worldwide face heavy losses from fungal diseases, with white rot posing one of the greatest threats. Researchers turned to Vitis davidii, a wild Chinese grape species known for its natural ...

Grape breeders across the country are working to develop varieties that won’t fall victim to powdery mildew, a fungus that threatens grapes just about anywhere they are grown, and now artificial ...

When picking out grapes at the grocery store, you avoid the wilted, discolored ones, right? As it turns out, there are other ...

Cabernet Sauvignon. Chardonnay. Marquette … wait, what? For many of us more casual wine drinkers, we can easily identify the Old World grapes that for centuries have been grown throughout the world ...

Okayama scientists have crafted a new wine grape, Muscat Shiragai, merging the wild Shiraga and Muscat of Alexandria. The ...