ONEIDA – Tony Kuchma, wetlands program coordinator for the Oneida Nation, was exploring the tribe’s newly restored wetlands area one day about 15 years ago when he saw something that made him react as ...

Members of Minnesota's Chippewa tribes will begin harvesting wild rice this week, off their reservations and without a state license, in an effort to gain affirmation of hunting, fishing and gathering ...

SOUTH CHIPPEWA LAKE, Minn. - Earl and Kathy Hoagland glide through the reedy shallows with a fluid choreography of motion melded by decades of shared work. Earl, planting his long pole in the muddy ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - We have all heard about the high prices and low production during crawfish season. Well, now it’s time for rice harvest. When driving in Southwest Louisiana, it’s pretty ...

With its panicles -- or grain heads -- heavy with rice, the upright stems of the rice plant are particularly vulnerable to damage from winds and water the nearer they are to harvest. When crops are ...

THAT’S YOUR RICE SUPPLY RIGHT THERE. THIS RICE IS READY FOR HARVEST. I STRETCHED EVERY DROP AS FAR AS I COULD. CALIFORNIA RICE GROWER CURT RICHTER MANAGED TO SQUEAK OUT ABOUT A QUARTER OF WHAT HE ...

Mark Pero, left, of Solon Springs, uses knocker harvesting sticks to tap manoomin (wild rice) into his canoe as Valerie Ross Zhaawendaagozikwe, of Solon Springs, moves their canoe through the manoomin ...

ODANAH – As Ben Connors watched his two teenage boys this late summer load up the gear on the canoe to harvest wild rice on the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in northern Wisconsin — and actually be ...

Katy Rice Harvest Festival returns in October, and country musician Stoney LaRue will be headlining the event. NOW OPEN IN KATY: New Katy restaurants offer spice levels for chicken meals and more than ...