Wild rice is really not a rice at all, but the seed of an aquatic grass. It was originally found growing in the shallow waters in the Great Lakes region by Native Americans in the first century A.D.

The flood-prone clay soils that farmers must drain and amend for planting grass seed make natural ponds for growing rice. For other crops "these are the worst fields," Brownsville farmer Mark ...

The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe’s wild rice planting means a little more than the average vegetable garden. Last Saturday, Tribal members collected wild rice seed from the Saginaw Bay and s… ...

SUAMICO (WLUK) -- A restoration project is underway in the waters of Green Bay to help a native plant grow. Crews are planting wild rice up and down the western shoreline.

Sutter County rice farmer Chris McKenzie can remember when the first seeds of commercial wild rice were sown in California. Companies came to the Golden State to carve out a ...

He’s a volunteer and part of a wild rice restoration project organized by the local county juvenile court, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission.

Wild rice grows in shallow waterways in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. It’s a plant that holds important ecological and cultural significance, but it’s been on the decline since ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — An advocacy group hopes to boost the wild rice growing in the La Crosse River marsh. Its goal is to improve habitat for migrating waterfowl and other wildlife that live ...

In 2021, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers partnered with tribes to study water, nutrients and sediment in 12 Upper Peninsula lakes to determine ideal conditions to grow wild rice. Last year, Michigan ...

LA CROSSE (AP) | An advocacy group hopes to boost the wild rice growing in the La Crosse River marsh. Its goal is to improve habitat for migrating waterfowl and ...