Rice fields across India host a variety of wild, edible plants that Indigenous communities value for their nutritional and medicinal properties. But these “weeds” are rapidly disappearing.

In the Midwest, a sacred wild rice plant has slowly vanished. University scientists and indigenous resource managers have combined their expertise to try to save it.

Some recipes that come with wild rice recommend using as much as 4 cups of water to 1 cup of uncooked rice, but as a general rule use 2 or 3 cups of water for every 1 cup of rice.

200 years ago, wild rice grew in almost every waterway in Michigan. Indigenous communities in the Great Lakes have been hand harvesting it for more than a thousand years.

This Near-Extinct Bird Has Returned to the Rice Fields of Japan’s Sado Island ... local Japanese crested ibis populations—believed to be the last living anywhere in the wild—plummeted.

Other cereals are field-dried, but aquatic wild rice is harvested green and must be roasted right away to give it a shelf life. Wild rice wasn't domesticated until the 1960s, and California ...

Native Americans migrated to Minnesota centuries ago “where food grew on the water,” 500 years later, the wild rice harvest tradition is still being passed on.

The St. Louis River once produced more than 3,000 acres of wild rice, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The hope now is to restore about 250 acres.

Then, they’d use shallow baskets to flip the rice in the air and let the wind carry off the husks (modern harvesters often use fans to speed up the process). The aim of this trip, though, was to ...

Rice fields across India host a variety of wild, edible plants that Indigenous communities value for their nutritional and medicinal properties. But these “weeds” are rapidly disappearing.