Close-up of raspberries and a few green leaves - Valentyn Volkov/Shutterstock You're trudging through the underbrush on a hike when you decide to take a break. As you power up with some trail mix, you ...

If you think you might be a bull-in-the-china-shop type of picker, by all means, wear protective clothing to prevent yourself from becoming bloodied by thorns. A wild raspberry patch is generally not ...

Step into the forest with me, dear traveler. I am the princess of these berry-bright woods, and I must tell you a secret woven through every branch and blossom. Foraging for wild berries is one of ...

Stumbling onto a patch of sweet berries is one of the special treats of hiking in the wild. We've eaten wild blackberries in California, wild blueberries in Maine, wild strawberries in Colorado. Here ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Astute berry lovers are rewarding themselves right about now with fresh black raspberries in their pancakes, smoothies and cobblers. But that’s only if they exercise some willpower while picking. Many ...

Growing raspberries takes a bit of patience — but, if you are a lover of that deep berry flavor, that’s no deterrent. Most raspberries need time to become established before they fruit, according to ...

The raspberry, with its botanical name Rubus idaeus, belongs to the rose family, which includes around 3,500 species. The raspberry is a hardy, deciduous climbing shrub that comes in a variety of ...

black raspberry bush with three large clusers of ripe and unripe berries - Milanika/Getty Images Pruning is an important part of caring for any raspberry plants. Black raspberry plants (Rubus ...

Iwas so excited to harvest my first raspberries, even if there were only four berries! They are ready for picking when their color is a deep, vibrant red color and they easily detach from the stem ...