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 ...

While RV camping Les challenges Paul to something old and something new. RV camping has its pleasures. Les & Paul hike a familiar area close by and get dirty, gathering a Wild Harvest staple, and Les ...

Spot them growing by the side of the road, and you may think of cattails, or bulrushes, as nothing more than pleasant scenery. But for the Anishinaabeg, these long, flowing plants have represented ...

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 ...

My first attempt at harvesting cattails was inauspicious. Shovel in hand and wearing flip flops, I jumped into the pond and discovered that flip flops were not the best footwear for moving around in ...

In March I wrote about exploring three beaver ponds at my grandparent’s old farm property in New Hampshire. With the late winter ground and water still frozen it was easy for me to explore the edges ...

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 ...