Coastal foraging focuses on collecting food sources from estuaries, sand dunes, tide pools, and marshlands. Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic Image Collection In 2023, chef Alain ...

Travelers are trading restaurant reservations for seaweed hunts, truffle dogs and lionfish dives — ushering in the ...

Roushanna Gray grew up on the wild side. As a teenager, Gray would collect mushrooms with her family in Cape Town, South Africa, and after moving to the coast 14 years ago, she fully embraced wild ...

“We all begin with seaweed blindness,” Roushanna Gray tells us, peering over the vast kelp forests of Cape Town’s False Bay from the shore. To the average beach-goer, the many varieties of seaweed are ...

Explore coastal foraging in Mendocino, California, where you'll discover various edible treasures along the shoreline, including seaweed, shellfish, and other coastal delicacies. This video showcases ...

Winter brings a slate of guided foraging excursions through nearby forests and along the shoreline led by Sausalito resident Maria Finn of Flora & Fungi. A sustainability educator, author and chef, ...

In the middle of a Colorado fir-spruce forest ravaged by wildfire, Andy Better crouches to inspect an abundance of burn morels that have sprouted in a clearing. The morels are grayish-brown in color, ...

When 16-year-old Violet Brill looks out her window, she doesn’t see only grass and trees—she sees a whole feast. Her father, legendary plant expert Steve “Wildman” Brill, introduced her to the world ...

Foraging for food can be the ultimate reset — a way to return to our primitive hunter-gatherer selves and reconnect with nature. The Monterey Peninsula is one of the best places to hunt for edible and ...