AG Week8d
$3.6 million award helping Leech Lake Band keep their wild rice in one place
Wild rice harvest was down in 2024, but spirits will be high in 2025 when a new processing facility is expected to be open in ...
MPR News12d
‘A resilient plant’: Three tribal nations reflect on wild rice season, how heavy spring rainfall affected harvest
Wild rice season occurs annually, typically from late August to early October. However, three tribal communities in northern ...
Oneida have never harvested wild rice. But 'the rice wants to be here,' so they're learning
So, the tribe decided to help it along by transplanting wild rice seed from Ojibwe reservations in northern Wisconsin and ...
The Globe and Mail25d
Science meets tradition to give Canadian wild rice the boost it badly needs
or sold to a new harvester as seed for a lower price than they’d get from a processing plant. Add to that the fact that the average Canadian wild-rice harvester is 60 to 70 years old ...
The Middletown Press1mon
The Philippines has rated ‘Golden Rice’ safe, but farmers might not plant it
(THE CONVERSATION) “Golden Rice” is probably the world’s most hotly debated genetically modified organism (GMO). It was intended to be a beta carotene-enriched crop to reduce Vitamin A ...
WXPR8d
Culture, conservation thrive as Great Lakes Tribes bring back wild rice
In the late summer of 2023, thick stands of wild rice stood tall and shimmered gold in some of Lac du Flambeau’s lakes. The ...
BBC5y
Mushroom wild rice salad with pomegranate and spring onion
Set aside. Stir the dressing, half the pomegranate seeds, half the spring onions and the watercress into the rice. Taste and adjust the seasoning, if needed. Garnish with the remaining pomegranate ...