It’s October, and mushrooms are springing up, seemingly overnight, on our lawns and in local woods. What a contrast to the bone-dry autumns a few years ago, when hardly a mushroom could be found! This ...

It’s mushroom season. Mushroom foraging is a unique way to spend time outside, and while it takes more research and preparation than your average trail outing, it’s a hobby worth digging into. Adam ...

Arkansas Times publisher Alan Leveritt has lived on his great-grandparents’ farm in north Pulaski County for 40 years. This is the third in a series of columns about day-to-day life on the land where ...

In the yard yesterday, I came upon a fly amanita. This is a mushroom — Latin name Amanita muscaria — that you don’t want to harvest and eat. Whenever I find one, I’m reminded of a walk I took decades ...