Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can be considered ...

Container gardening is blooming in popularity these days. It's a flexible way to grow flowers, vegetables, and herbs when space is limited, but going beyond the most obvious choices could give an ...

WE ALL KNOW WILD RICE, RIGHT? WELL, IF ALL YOU’VE EVER TASTED IS THAT STUFF THAT COMES OUT OF A BOX WITH THE LITTLE SPICE PACK YOU MIGHT BE IN FOR A SURPRISE. CHEF MARK SHEEHAN WAS I WOULD SAY THAT ...

Wearing large rubber boots, Nadine Mitschunas joyfully handled mature rice plants peeking through the water of her small plot ...

If you’ve never heard of Texas wild rice, you’re not alone. The plant’s obscurity is a consequence of its rarity. Endemic to Central Texas and listed as federally endangered, Zizania texana grows ...

As an eagle circled above a section of the Au Sable River in Oscoda, Bay Mills Indian Community tribal member Dennis Carrick saw the symbolic greeting of the bird, sacred to Native Americans, as a ...

Lowland rice would be challenging to grow in a home garden, but another, less common variety can be cultivated more easily in typical backyard conditions. Duborskian rice, a Russian short-grained ...