Hiking last year in La Tuna Canyon, as my guide identified the streamside plants that we passed, I was gripped by a craving that only the late-winter mention of an early summer fruit can provoke. At ...

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you’re pretty much required to like blackberries. They’re everywhere in late summer (or, this hot year, earlier). The crazily tangled, dense vines grow at a mad ...

Blackberries, salmonberries and thimbleberries are commonly found in Marin County. There are two blackberry species, one native and one non-native. Our native blackberry, Rubus ursinus, has three ...

We see blackberry brambles growing along country roads in Marin. We may also see them up in a neighbor’s unkempt yard. The native species is Rubus ursinus. The non-native and invasive species is ...

In my last column, I divulged my passion for wild-food foraging and shared a recipe for a nettles pesto. I am continuing the theme in this editorial because the outdoors are bursting with life. And ...