Sulfate from acid rain, sewage treatment plants, mines and bacteria is creating a harmful byproduct affecting wild rice in Minnesota. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and University of Minnesota ...

Sept 27: Wild Rice, Zizania palustris Speakers: Dr. Ervin Olke, emeritus professor, U of M Dept. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics; and Beth Nelson, executive director, Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice ...

But aside from cooking her famous Ojibwe fried rice, Leah didn’t feel connected to the significance of Manoomin — a sacred plant ... here to Minnesota. A view of Manoomin or wild rice after ...

Leanna Goose grew up ricing manoomin (wild rice) as a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.  “Wild rice is culturally ...

In fact, it's the official grain of Minnesota! Wild rice is the edible ... It needs water to grow like all plants, but doesn't grow submerged in water. Water is used to flood rice fields in ...

Central to their platform and message is saving the state grain — wild rice, manoomin in the Ojibwe language, psin in Dakota.

Which plants changed Minnesota and transformed how we live ... more than 30 white pine trees are planted for every tree harvested. Wild rice: A staple food of the Ojibwe for centuries, the ...