by Rich Leighton | May 18, 2021 | Food, Foraging, Fruits & Berries, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History
Blackberries are one of the most delicious wild berries you can find on almost any continent and belong to the rose family, Rosaceae (notice all those thorns?). Did you know that what we call the blackberry isn’t actually a berry though? It’s technically an aggregate...
by Rich Leighton | Sep 1, 2018 | Food, Foraging, Fruits & Berries, Interesting Nature Facts, Nature & Wildlife, Pacific Northwest
The raspberry-like thimbleberry is one of those common members of the rose family that has been used for untold centuries by the Native American tribes. Not only are the berries (usually) sweet and full of Vitamin C, the fresh shoots can be eaten fresh and leaves can...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 19, 2016 | Food, Foraging, Montana, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Rocky Mountains, Washington
I’m right in the middle of my busy portrait and wedding season, I thought I’d share some of the images I’ve taken from the Cascade Mountains to the Rocky Mountains of one of my favorite finds while hiking the beautiful Pacific Northwest –...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 14, 2016 | Alberta, Foraging, Montana, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography
WARNING! ALL DELICIOUS, RIPE BERRIES WERE DEFINITELY HARMED AND EATEN AFTER PHOTOGRAPHING THESE IMAGES Saskatoons, also known as western serviceberries are apple-like fruits (or “pomes” in botanical terms) that look very similar to salal berries and are one of my...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 22, 2014 | Food, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
Today’s post is brought to you by my stomach. Since I moved to the Pacific Northwest three years ago, I’ve sorely missed my well-developed knowledge and skills of natural foraging any time I was out in the woods or Everglades of my native Florida. In the...
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