Water is used to flood rice fields in order to harvest the grain, not to grow it. Wild rice actually grows in the water and only the flowering head of the grass sticks up over the water's surface.

Cozy, comfort food is the best food, and decidedly one of the best things about the weather getting colder. A rice pudding dish made with wild rice is a perfect example.

From LeahConnecting with my Ojibwe heritage by learning to harvest wild rice MPR News senior editor Leah Lemm walks with her son Marvin from his school bus stop on Jan. 2. So, she set out with a ...

Texas wild rice is beautiful. Growing in densely populated ... the Texas State drumline rehearses its cadences in an adjacent field, and this correspondent rolled up his corduroys to wade out.

Many rice fields developed,” explains Hirashima ... ibis populations—believed to be the last living anywhere in the wild—plummeted. In 1981, the few surviving birds were taken into ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Manoomin, meaning "the good berry," is a type of wild rice that has been harvested by the Ojibwe people in the Great Lakes region of North America for centuries.

Still, Cameron is optimistic about the future for wild rice, saying he and others in this field are not out to get rich, but are driven by a passion working with nature, even with its ...