Look for thick, prolific grape vines on shorelines or wherever the soil is sandy. The grapes are ready to harvest when they turn purple—usually early to mid-October. Since grapes and poison ivy tend ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Given their grocery store ubiquity, it is easy to forget that grapes are best enjoyed seasonably. The best fall grapes are truly ephemeral, appearing on shelves as soon as the air begins to chill, and ...