The edible tips of ostrich ferns are a forager's delight. Find out where to look for fiddlehead ferns and how to prepare them. When you hear the word "fern," many things might come to mind. An elderly ...

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; ...

Foraged fiddleheads are one of springs delicacies. The tightly curled fronds can be sauteed, steamed, boiled or grilled. When ...

Spring is in full swing, which means a Maine delicacy is in season: fiddleheads. They’re edible ostrich ferns that haven’t ...

Elena Valeriote is a writer of stories about food, farming, culture, and travel that explore the connection between people and place. Her work has appeared in publications including Gastro Obscura, ...

For the shade gardener who wants to grow edible plants, this shadowy designation of how much—or how little—direct sunlight a space receives is often perceived as second best. “I have a garden, ...

A new episode of “Superabundant” features Portland’s only Indigenous pop-up restaurant, Javelina. With dishes ranging from frybread tacos to sophisticated presentations of wild game, the menu at ...

It’s fiddlehead season once again, time for the hyper-seasonal celebration of one of spring’s earliest culinary harbingers. Early harvests of the locally foraged ostrich ferns are now arriving at ...

Photographer Rich Abrahamson focuses on the processing of the seasonal greens.

Recent clear, warm days and subsequent rains have brought quite a change to the forests of the Northland. Where bare trees stood just two weeks ago, now the woods wear the greens of newly emerged ...

The many trees showing new leaves is not a scene usually viewed as we begin May. What we are seeing is more likely in mid-month or even later. The greening of the woods is a phenomenon of every May, ...