Folks sit in their driveways, whittling sticks. It can only mean one thing: Wild rice season has returned to northern Minnesota. “You hear the buzz around Cass Lake and all around the reservatio ...

Andrew Zimmern joins Capri to taste how wild rice shows up at the biggest state fair in America, the “Great Minnesota Get Together.” The most sacred food of the Anishinaabe people has become a ...

But climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is bringing more rain and flooding to Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, making harvests of wild rice less reliable. For more than 70 years ...

Two wild rice harvesters shove off with their canoe. Minnesota's wild rice harvesting season will begin in the next few weeks when the rice becomes legally ripe. Wild rice growth and harvesting is ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota regulators identified another 20 bodies of water used for wild rice production that exceeded the state’s wild rice sulfate water quality standard, placing the 13 lakes and ...

Starting this year, all state WMAs are open for wild rice harvest except for those that are specifically posted as closed. In east-central Minnesota there are only four WMAs closed, all of which ...

For years, the small, shallow lake about 100 miles (161 kilometers) north of Minnesota’s Twin Cities — Minneapolis and St. Paul — was too deep for wild rice, or manoomin, as wild rice is called in the ...

One of seven Ojibwe bands in Minnesota, White Earth found that prophecy fulfilled along the many shallow clear lakes that lie in the state’s northern forests, where luminous green stalks of wild rice ...

While some natural cycling is normal, bad years for wild rice are becoming more frequent, said Ann Geisen, a wildlife lake specialist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).