Fiddleheads are a taste of spring in the Northeast and some areas of the Midwest and Northwest. Although these fern heads do grow wild in some areas of the country, backyard gardeners can also grow ...

In this week's share: fiddlehead ferns, carrots, beets, English peas, lettuce, onions, cherry tomatoes, cucumber. To try Anastatia's recipe for pasta with peas, asparagus, and fiddlehead ferns, click ...

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For foragers, spring is synonymous with fiddleheads, or the furled tips of ferns. Because fiddleheads are such an obvious choice of topic at this time of year, I determine I should go a step further. ...

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, ...

A dish made of fiddlehead ferns, duck confit and pasta is prepared by O'Malley. Just after the snow melts, but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy ...

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; ...

Description: The stunningly shaped fiddlehead fern is named for just that: its semblance to the head of a fiddle. But while no musical sounds actually emanate from this gourmet wild vegetable, there ...

Three people are accused of illegally harvesting fiddleheads from 10,000 environmentally protected ferns in Jefferson County.

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