Cattails have been described as the grocery store of the wild because every part of the plant is edible. During the growing season, three of these parts -- shoots, flowers and pollen -- provide easily ...

I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You know how sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees? In this ...

Cattails are one of the most common wild foods. But it never occurred to me to actually eat them until I saw the young, pale, green-and-white, leek-shaped shoots at the Thursday Market in the South ...

Laced throughout the Champlain Valley there are wetlands full of cattails. Beneath the tall grass-like leaves there are thousands of pounds of food and standing above the roots there is a potential ...

Clean your cattail shoots thoroughly and keep the tenderest parts, usually the first 5 inches or so. Remove the outer layers if necessary. Clean the jars thoroughly, then place the shoots and other ...

They caught my attention on one of my drives through the Whitewater valley earlier this winter. With a recent snowfall, the thousands of brown heads stood out with caps of white. Cattails are one of ...

“It’s really weird to think that people actually eat this,” Ian Rossman said. Growing up, he saw cattails growing in a ditch by his house all the time, but thought of them as weeds or possibly ...

Cattails provide food, shelter, fuel, medicine and more. This Swiss Army knife of plants plays an important role in Native American cultures throughout the country. Starting in April, a class at Hans ...

As the leaves come down, we begin to notice plants such as cattails that will persist into winter and perhaps until spring. Native cattails have long provided food, shelter, medicine, and more to ...

Cattail Dairy Farms, Mauston, has successfully completed the requirements for Food Armor certification for 2017. The dairy was the first farm to be Food Armor certified in Wisconsin back in 2015 and ...

I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You know how sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees? In this ...