Vines, vines, everywhere vines. They seem to be flourishing, occupying every niche possible, growing on trees and fences or trailing along telephone wires. Are they part of nature’s bounty or a ...

The wild grape is a native perennial vine found around most of Minnesota, except in the far north. It likes forest edges, most notably along lakeshores and river banks. Clusters of round, juicy, dark ...

My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family in rural Whitefield, Maine. This happened in the 1940s. By then, ...

We experienced some false starts with our grape gathering. We’d been waiting for the fruits to become fully ripe, but by that time, they were mostly gone — eaten by all manner of wildlife. Pick the ...