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 ...

It may sound too good to be true: a nutritious wild food that's easy to find, can be eaten year-round and is palatable to even the pickiest of eaters. While cattails have long been a survivalist ...

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 ...

You see them almost everywhere there is wild water. Cattails — those long, spikey stalks and corn-ear-shaped heads. They are a forager’s delight! My oldest daughter would say, “Eeeew, Mother! I am not ...