The fiddlehead micro-season is here, so get them now before they all unfurl into the fronds of ostrich ferns. “They popped up last Friday,” says Franca Tantillo of Buried Treasures, stalwart of the ...

Of all the wild edible plants that grow in our country, the ancient fiddlehead ferns are the most unique and flavorful. They are the unfurled new leaves of a fern. Reproducing through spores, not ...

Few foods look more fetching on the plate than fiddleheads, those vibrant green coils that emerge in moist forests each spring. Aptly named, a fiddlehead is the new growth of a fern, with a curled ...

VAIL VALLEY, Colorado -In the Colorado Rockies and the Vail Valley, wild mushroom foragers do not share the whereabouts of their secret stash. And so it is in Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and the ...

We are going to talk about ramps and fiddleheads on this Sunday's show. Ramps and Fiddlewhat? No, I am not going to strap on my skates and start doing one-half pikes while playing a banjo in the ...

If you explore the produce section of your local grocery store in mid-May to early June, you might encounter a strange seasonal vegetable. Intensely green, these spirals resemble the top of a violin; ...

We hardy denizens of Central Mass. can proudly boast that we’ve soldiered through another winter of cold, sometimes frigid, temperatures. But spring is now springing up all over. One of the bonuses of ...

Just after the snow melts but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy riverbanks in search of the... Just after the snow melts, but long before the last frost, ...

Have you ever eaten a fiddlehead fern before? They’re really a gourmet delight. Among the earliest edible items you can forage from a forest (or better still, from your backyard), fiddleheads have ...

Slowly the young hunter/gatherer walked along the trail, seeking bounty of spring woods. He could have been from Paleo-Indian culture of several thousand years ago, from the Oneota culture of several ...

In the Colorado Rockies, wild mushroom foragers do not share the whereabouts of their secret stash. And so it is in Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and the Great Lakes States – but for these residents, ...