If you've never had tripe and are afraid to try it, don't be. On its own, tripe has a very mild flavor, which makes it perfect for absorbing flavors from other ingredients as it cooks.

While out for a dog walk in the snowy woods last weekend, my friends and I (not the dogs) stopped to admire some rock tripe, a large leathery lichen that crowned a granite ledge. As much as I love ...

February is our driest month of the year. Sometimes with the cold and snow, we tend to forget this fact of this late winter month. Anything that survives these chilly days needs to be able to cope ...

The world is a gift, not a giant Amazon warehouse, Robin Wall Kimmerer said. In her new book, “The Serviceberry,” she proposes gratitude as an antidote to prevailing views of nature as a ...

YESTERDAY, it was announced that ITV's year on year profits have fallen by 35 per cent. The day before, the station managed only a pitiful nine nominations at the Royal TV Society Awards. Last ...

This is a chance to find out what rock polyploidy and rock tripe is. Enjoy warm cocoa at the walk’s end. Cost is $5 for members of the Friends of Holly Hill Farm ($15 maximum per family), $8 for ...

Lichens have practical purposes for man. The gaudy purple and red of Arctic species have been brewed into beer and used in vodka and molasses production. The lichen dubbed Rock Tripe, when cooked in a ...

The show spotlights dozens of such ingredients, including spruce tips, dandelions, horsetail, fireweed, wild blueberries, cedar buds, rock tripe and fern leaves.

The weather will dictate the exact route of the New Year’s Day walk through the woods at Holly Hill Farm, but naturalist Steve Ivas said it’s likely that hikers will pass a crop of rock tripe.

With her blockbuster book, “Braiding Sweetgrass,” Kimmerer’s ideas about how to repair humanity’s broken relationship with the natural world have spread far.