Wild rice truly is a wild, natural food. While several varieties exist, the most commonly available are Zizania palustris, or Northern wild rice, and Zizania aquatica, or wild rice. While it is now ...

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Wild rice grows in shallow waterways in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. It’s a plant that holds important ecological and cultural significance, but it’s been on the decline since the early ...

Traditional techniques to a modern meal with Sean Sherman, savor MN Indigenous flavors. From centuries-old traditional techniques, like foraging with ethnobotanist Linda Black Elk and harvesting ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Wild rice — or Manoomin as the Ojibwe call it — is one of the Midwest's most sacred plants. But extreme weather, from record snow to destructive floods, is having tangible consequences ...