FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – The end of summer marks the beginning of saw palmetto season, where the plant is in full bloom and the berries are plentiful. Picking the fruit on county-owned land is illegal, ...

Since July, when the illegal harvesting of saw palmetto berries became a third-degree felony in Florida, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office has made at least 30 arrests MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. — There’s a ...

HOBE SOUND — Two industry business owners who recently spoke to TCPalm about the rising trend of illegally picking saw palmetto berries were arrested in August and charged with purchasing illegally ...

STUART, Fla. — Eleven people were arrested in South Florida on charges of stealing 6,000 pounds of saw palmetto berries, a coveted dietary supplement ingredient, authorities said Wednesday. According ...

For years, middle-aged men have stocked their medicine cabinets with a certain berry-based remedy touted as nature’s answer to bathroom woes. Now, Harvard doctors are saying this popular pill is ...

RUSKIN, Fla. (WFLA) — The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after two people allegedly illegally harvested 800 pounds of saw palmetto berries from a farm in Ruskin. Apothecary and ...

Saw palmetto berries are harvested for their medicinal properties. Saw palmetto supplements are more accepted as a treatment in Europe. The $150 million industry is expected to double by the 2030s.

A 37-year-old Immokalee man has been arrested, suspected of illegally harvesting saw palmetto berries. According to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, Jose Ramirez’s arrest was the first of the ...

Three people were caught and arrested for stealing palmetto berries in Charlotte County. The suspects were found in the bushes on Brig Circle East, near Gasparilla Road, just outside the Rotonda West ...

Saw palmetto berry pickers, trapesing into the Florida wilds to nab those small purple-black drupes this past year, had a lot more to be concerned with than in years passed. A new state law ...

HOBE SOUND — Sam Allcock and Drew Reardon purchased a crate in August containing about 1,000 pounds of green, yellow and dark-indigo saw palmetto berries. Allcock picked out a ripe berry from the ...