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...

Welcome back to Ask a Naturalist: your own personal ‘Google’ for information on all things wild on PEI! I love getting photos of plants...

This time of year, PEI’s wildflowers are busy dispersing their seeds and they’ve come up with many ingenious ways to do this. I've...

As a botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well (fungi are more closely related to animals than they are to plants). But I am working to...

Hurricane Fiona took many things from PEI last year, including our fall leaf colour. As we move into the shorter, cooler days of...

On PEI, autumn is for Asters. These beautiful and often colourful flowers can be found in literally every Island habitat right now: sand...

Welcome back to Ask a Naturalist: your own personal “Google” for information on all things natural on PEI! I’ve been getting lots of...

I love finding new populations of PEI’s rarest plants, and ferns are my favourite plant group. So, you can imagine how excited I was to...

It’s mushroom Monday! As you know, I am not a mushroom expert. But I am working to learn more of our Island’s fungi and will share some...

There’s a pretty, useful, and downright fun plant flowering along PEI’s streams right now. Meet Spotted Touch-me-not (Impatiens...

Elderberries are one of my favourite wild foods: abundant, easy to harvest, versatile, delicious, and beneficial! You can read more...

If I had to choose my favourite wild food, I think it would be Common Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis). This plant is abundant, easy to...

Welcome back to Ask a Naturalist: your own personal “Google” for information on all things natural on PEI! I’ve been getting a lot of...