ALL. WE ALL KNOW WILD RICE, RIGHT? WELL, IF ALL YOU’VE EVER TASTED IS THAT STUFF THAT COMES OUT OF A BOX WITH THE LITTLE SPICE PACK, YOU MIGHT BE IN FOR A SURPRISE. CHEF MARK SHEEHAN WAS. I WOULD SAY ...

A wild rice bed grows Sept. 12 on the Upper Mississippi River near Goose Island County Park in the town of Shelby, Wis. After disappearing for decades, wild rice is rebounding on parts of the upper ...

Where does wild rice grow? Meet people who protect manoomin rice, a culturally critical plant, and the waters that sustain it. Leanna Goose (Anishinaabe) remembers wild rice, or manoomin, being served ...

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 ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as important as the crop itself. A new study reveals that the specific genetic ...

Roger Labine uses ricing sticks, or knockers, to harvest wild rice on Lake Tawas. Every year as summer ends, Indigenous Michiganders head out onto lakes and rivers to collect wild rice, a staple food ...

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LA CROSSE (AP) | An advocacy group hopes to boost the wild rice growing in the La Crosse River marsh. Its goal is to improve habitat for migrating waterfowl and other wildlife that live above and ...

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TOWN OF SHELBY - If she closes her eyes, Danelle Larson can still remember how the stretch of Mississippi River in front of her looked as recent as a decade ago: nothing but open, muddy water. Today, ...

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