I walk the trail searching for tiny green curls among the towering spruce trees popping up through the sphagnum moss. I’m looking for fiddleheads. Actually, the common name for the curly top of all ...

When we go through this time of May, it is hard to not notice all the happenings among the trees. At the start of the month, they began opening leaves, the smaller trees first. This was quickly ...

The large trees of oak and basswood, along with a varied trio of ash, sumac and bigtooth aspen, are the last ones to grow this green foliage. Even these late arrivals take on this color and the woods ...

On a recent Tuesday in April, Dan Cahill, land steward at Burlington’s Parks, Recreation & Waterfront department, squatted in the woods of the city’s Intervale, digging with a hand in the dead leaves.

Have you ever eaten a fiddlehead fern before? They’re really a gourmet delight. Among the earliest edible items you can forage from a forest (or better still, from your backyard), fiddleheads have ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. If you’ve taken a walk in the forest or along the banks of a river, stream ...

Fiddlehead-foraging season is winding down in Chittenden County. Maybe you’ve foraged all of the tasty, wild, asparagus-like ostrich-fern tips you can eat, and then some. Now what do you do with them?

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. ORONO — Fiddleheads, a traditional springtime delicacy in New England and ...