These unique grocery stores in each state are worth seeking out as they not only offer distinct specialties, but some could ...

Minnesota’s long, dark winters are best weathered with comfort food — the kind that warms you from the inside out, thick enough to cling to a spoon and satisfying enough to carry you through the ...

In fact, it's the official grain of Minnesota! Wild rice is the edible, long grain portion of the grass. It is typically dark brown or black in color, with a thicker hull on the outside which ...

I’m sure many of you out there, like me, love wild rice soup. Until recently, I thought most of it came from Native Americans up in Northern Minnesota, collecting the kernels from the tall stalks of ...

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 ...

In doing so, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency opted to follow the federal Clean Water Act over a 2015 state law that sought to prevent the MPCA from adding impaired wild rice waters to the ...

Wellston resident Laura Kurella is a finalist in the Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Council’s national 2023 Get Wild with Wild Rice recipe contest. Creative wild rice recipes were submitted from all ...

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 ...

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 there ...

As the Aug. 15 wild rice season opening date approaches, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reminds harvesters that rice stands must be ripe before they can be legally harvested.

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 ...