True wild rice is manually gathered using two sticks — a harvester uses one to bend the rice stalk over their canoe and the ...

Wild rice has a delicious, nutty flavour and high nutritional value. It is North America's only native cereal crop. It's a grass plant that originated in the Great Lakes region, but the shallow ...

Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can be considered ...

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Whetung, who has a provincial license giving him the right to plant and harvest the wild rice, is allowed to gather it to provide for himself, his family, and community.

The beauty of wild rice, or any rice for that matter, is you just add water, whether to cook it or grow it. *Billed as $4.00 plus GST every four weeks. After 24 weeks, price increases to the ...

Traditionally, wild rice — or manoomin — is harvested by paddling into shallow waters and gently knocking the ripe grains into the canoe using cedar sticks. It’s a time-honoured practice ...

“We grow it in three or four lakes around Athabasca,” says Alice Ptolemy, who operates Lakeland Wild Rice, along with her husband Wayne. “We started out about 20 years ago, but there’s a ...

The wild rice is then packed into bags which are later transported to a processing plant in La Ronge. Before modern propeller-driven harvesters were introduced, people would harvest wild rice ...