If decorating a tree is part of your December routine, you’re not alone. PEI’s Red Squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) have been doing...

Welcome back to Ask a Naturalist: your own personal “Google” for information on all things natural on PEI!  Recently, we looked at the...

As a professional botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well, but I am working to learn more.  This fall, I’m sharing some easily...

PEI’s colourful fall leaves are mostly gone, but one native tree is still putting on a show: Eastern Larch, also known as Juniper,...

As a professional botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well, but I am working to learn more.  This fall, I’m sharing some easily...

With the change of seasons, my plant and fungus posts are coming to an end and my two popular winter series – PEI natural history and...

As a professional botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well, but I am working to learn more. This fall, I’m sharing some easily...

Black Trumpets (Craterellus fallax) can be hard fungi to find, but they are choice edibles not easily mistaken for anything else. For...

Welcome back to Ask a Naturalist: your own personal “Google” for information on all things natural on PEI! One of my favourite things...

As a professional botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well, but I am working to learn more. This fall, I’m sharing some easily...

Hurricane Fiona brought many changes to our Island landscape: some dramatic, others subtle, and a few that are – paradoxically – both. ...

As a professional botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well, but I am working to learn more. This fall, I’m sharing some easily...

It’s been a great fall for fungi, and a fridge-full of Honeys, Hedgehogs, and Yellowfoot mushrooms inspired me to try them in a...

PEI’s wild plants have all sorts of innovative ways to disperse their seeds. Some use wind, others water, and a rare few go with...

If you or someone in your household is hesitant to try wild mushrooms, this could be the recipe for you. It's a simple chicken vegetable...

As a professional botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well, but I am working to learn more. This fall, I’m sharing some easily...

July is peak orchid season on PEI, and so I am always pleasantly surprised to run into one of our late-flowering species in fall. I came...

It pays to have friends that forage (thanks, Ken!). I was recently gifted some lovely Shrimp of the Woods (Entoloma abortivum, Photo 1...

As a professional botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well, but I am working to learn more. This fall, I’m sharing some easily...

Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor) is a beautiful, ecologically important fungus that has gained modern-day fame for medicinal uses that...