CASS LAKE, Minn. — The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe was recently awarded $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to build a wild rice processing ...

Lake Rice, on the other hand, ranges from purplish to brown or black, and can vary in shape from long and thin to short and plump. Health Benefits Wild rice is a wonderfully balanced food source ...

Nett Lake is one of the mothers of all wild rice, maybe 4,800 acres of wild rice coverage on the 7,000-acre lake, and that harvest, like Lower Rice Lake, is yet to come.

In the only available wild rice spot on Lake Superior, Natives from different nations gather for the wild rice harvest season. The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission brought their ...

Wild rice drew people to the St. Louis, and brought them together, said David Grandmaison, the river’s wild rice restoration coordinator at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Efforts ...

Nate Johnson pulls a piece of wild rice from its hull during the parching, or heating process, to gauge how much longer it will need to stay over the fire, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, in Cass Lake, Minn.

Leanna Goose and her children reseed wild rice on Leech Lake, where she has been studying the impact of invasive species and strategies for recovering wild rice. She is also working on a 2025 ...

Wild rice once grew so thick on the lake, you couldn’t see the water from shore. Then in the 1990s, it started to disappear until it was gone altogether.

Wild rice once grew so thick on the lake, you couldn’t see the water from shore. Then in the 1990s, it started to disappear until it was gone altogether.

Wild rice needs what Wiggins calls "the Goldilocks effect," where the water can't be too deep, too shallow, too turbulent or too stagnant. "Everything has to be just right," he said.