An Native American tribe is working to restore wild rice to five eastern Minnesota lakes ... Martineau said his grandfather taught him how to harvest rice five years ago.

From LeahConnecting with my Ojibwe heritage by learning to harvest wild rice MPR ... Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe here to Minnesota. A view of Manoomin or wild rice after it has been harvested ...

In a novel attempt to enforce a longstanding Minnesota rule protecting wild rice, the Environmental Protection Agency is investigating U.S. Steel’s taconite mine, Keetac, for repeatedly ...

Natalie Yarbrough of Minnetonka, has won the Grand Prize in the Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Council’s “Get Wild with Wild ...

In fact, it's the official grain of Minnesota! Wild rice is the ... Water is used to flood rice fields in order to harvest the grain, not to grow it. Wild rice actually grows in the water and ...

A 1939 photo of wild rice on Blue Lake in La Crescent, Minnesota, on the Mississippi ... waist-high — far easier to shake into a boat to harvest, Larson said. And it appears to be more resilient ...