At first, Matt Williams thought someone might be stealing his mushrooms. The tops of the wine cap mushrooms growing on his Wisconsin farm had been removed at the stems, the way a forager might slice ...

One of the fundamental questions hunters grapple with each year is how to effectively and consistently get deer into shooting range. Of course, constructing food plots — parcels of land full of browse ...

As sometimes happens, Sunday's Outdoors page just wasn't big enough to hold all the information I had - especially on food plots. In Mississippi, and probably in other states, rye grass is king when ...

If you’ve ever watched a whitetail deer browse, you’ve seen them nonchalantly pick specific plants to devour while ignoring others. A fancy way of describing that behavior is to say that deer are ...

John in McLean writes about his “get-away place” in Charles County: “I wrap the young trees I’ve planted there from about a foot off the ground to four feet up to protect them against deer rubbing ...

WASHINGTON — The new edition of the J L Hudson “Ethnobotanical Catalog of Seeds” is filled with rare varieties, old favorites and seeds for plants that most people didn’t even know produced seeds.

The Whitetail Institute’s Imperial Power Plant is a variety of warm season annuals, including soybeans, cow peas, lablab, sorghum and sunflowers. With the promise of “more tonnage per acre than any ...

Timothy (Phleum pratense) is a perennial cool season grass that is relatively late flowering and best adapted to cool, humid climates. It normally matures two to three weeks later than tall fescue, ...

HAMBURG – While forgetting the Arctic-like days of January are impossible, now is the time for sportsmen to turn their thoughts to those of spring. And nothing says spring like the results that come ...