Unlike commercially grown wild rice—which is crossbred for hardiness ... At this time of year, Wichern keeps the parcher stoked from sunup to sundown. Today, the mill is paying $1.25 a pound ...

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 ...

A rice cooker! With "Top Chef" heading to Canada this season, it's a perfect time to highlight one of the country's most distinctive staples: wild rice. The rice cooker — which, of course ...

A northern Minnesota power plant that was the site of a massive ash-water spill last summer has for years legally pumped wastewater with even higher concentrations of sulfate than was detected in ...

Today, it's covered with impressively tall and thick beds of wild rice. Larson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and Alicia Carhart, Mississippi River vegetation specialist ...

“We’re not sure how the (wild) rice got there,” he said. “I was star-struck. No one reseeded it. It came back on its own. The rice was telling me it wants to be there.” So, the tribe ...

EAST LANSING, MI – There’s a new plan to help restore and protect Michigan’s remaining native wild rice beds. Michigan’s wild rice, or manoomin stewardship plan was discussed in depth on ...