It’s fiddlehead season once again, time for the hyper-seasonal celebration of one of spring’s earliest culinary harbingers. Early harvests of the locally foraged ostrich ferns are now arriving at ...

Few foods look more fetching on the plate than fiddleheads, those vibrant green coils that emerge in moist forests each spring. Aptly named, a fiddlehead is the new growth of a fern, with a curled ...

It’s April: prime time for rain clouds and locavores alike. In a contest of extremes, I’d go with the locavores. Soon we’ll be deluging greenmarkets—the fanatics among us, forests and woods—baskets at ...

OLD TOWN, Maine (NEWS CENTER)-- It is spring time and a Maine delicacy is growing, fiddleheads. If you know what to look for, they are an easy plant to spot. "It has a smooth stem, it's that green, it ...

When the cherry blossoms pop and the days grow longer and warmer, North Jersey's chefs know that it triggers a yearning for fresh new flavors. It is also why our culinary artisans say that it's ramps ...

These curlicue-shaped fiddlehead greens are a specialty of the forest. They are actually fern fronds. Fiddleheads have such a short season since they're picked before the ferns have a chance to unfurl ...

The large trees of oak and basswood, along with a varied trio of ash, sumac and bigtooth aspen, are the last ones to grow this green foliage. Even these late arrivals take on this color and the woods ...

A late April nature walk in Burlington’s Intervale started out unexpectedly high-tech. As the 18 participants gathered, Duncan Murdoch, the Intervale Center‘s natural areas stewardship coordinator, ...