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 ...

Dario Cantù, a professor in the Department of Viticulture and Enology, in the grape orchard outside the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. (Jael Mackendorf/UC Davis) Wild North ...

Wild grapes are kind of a pain to work with — each individual fruit is more than half seed and skin, so you need to collect a lot in order to do anything with them. Picking the fruit from the stems is ...

These grapes are growing behind my house. Are they edible? They’re about the size of a pea. This is a wild grape vine, probably fox grapes. The fruit are edible when ripe, though extremely tart for ...

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, ...

Grapevines worldwide face heavy losses from fungal diseases, with white rot posing one of the greatest threats. Researchers turned to Vitis davidii, a wild Chinese grape species known for its natural ...

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 ...