Not many trees have both beautiful fall color in several shades and three types of leaves, all on the same tree. The sassafras tree, (Sassafras albidum), sports an unlobed leaf (football), one-lobed ...

Rachael Elizabeth West has been busy this month (as she is most months), out collecting nuts, berries and leaves, bringing these foraged ingredients back into the kitchen to make something tasty.

A beautiful tree with mitten-shaped leaves, sassafras was once popularly used medicinally and culinarily. Many Native American tribes had a multitude of medicinal uses for sassafras, ranging from a ...