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 ...

It’ll take a lot of work in order to grow rice on Mars. First, and most importantly, we need a mission to successfully get to Mars and set up camp, something NASA is hoping to do in the late 2030s or ...

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 ...

SUAMICO - As Cindy Reffke looks out across the Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve, she imagines the wild rice plants that have disappeared, but are now desperately needed to restore the environment and ...

Manoomin, a crop vital to the Indigenous peoples of the Upper Midwest, has been threatened in recent years. But careful stewardship is helping to bring it back. By Kevin Noble Maillard Reporting from ...

Leanna Goose and her children reseed wild rice on Leech Lake, where she has been studying the impact of invasive species and strategies for recovering wild rice. She is also working on a 2025 campaign ...

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 ...

This article is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, Borderless, Ensia, Grist, Planet Detroit, Sahan Journal and Wisconsin Watch, as well as the Guardian and Inside ...

Michigan’s wild rice has dwindled due to dams, wetlands loss, industry and climate change Tribes and government partners are reseeding wetlands across the state Wild rice is important to tribes, but ...

Andrew Zimmern joins this episode all about wild rice and its history. The most sacred food of the Anishinaabe people has become a prized ingredient in cuisine. Learn about the history of wild rice ...

An environmental committee hearing at the Minnesota State Capitol veered into religion and fetus protections Thursday as lawmakers discussed a bill that would grant inherent rights to the state grain.