Hiking last year in La Tuna Canyon, as my guide identified the streamside plants that we passed, I was gripped by a craving that only the late-winter mention of an early summer fruit can provoke. At ...

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you’re pretty much required to like blackberries. They’re everywhere in late summer (or, this hot year, earlier). The crazily tangled, dense vines grow at a mad ...

Blackberries, salmonberries and thimbleberries are commonly found in Marin County. There are two blackberry species, one native and one non-native. Our native blackberry, Rubus ursinus, has three ...

We see blackberry brambles growing along country roads in Marin. We may also see them up close in our neighbor’s unkempt yard. The native species is Rubus ursinus. The non-native and invasive species ...

In my last column, I divulged my passion for wild-food foraging and shared a recipe for a nettles pesto. I am continuing the theme in this editorial because the outdoors are bursting with life. And ...

Four hybrids, which arose when a hexaploid (2n=42), an octoploid (2n=56), and a decaploid (2n=70) member of the Pacific Coast Rubus ursinus complex, as well as the Loganberry, were crossed with a ...

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JOYCE — Sweet wild blackberries in freshly baked pies are always the highlight of the annual Joyce Daze Wild Blackberry Festival, which will return for the 36th year Saturday. These aren’t just any ...

If you want to create a beautiful spring garden that is more than just looks, you cannot go wrong with berries. They look pretty and will also bring a bountiful harvest to your yard. But the question ...