'Can You Dig It,' the vegetable cookbook from John Folse, includes a recipe for pancakes with cattail pollen. (Photo by Ron Manville / courtesy John Folse) Chef John Folse included this recipe in "Can ...

Cattails are one of the most common wild foods. But it never occurred to me to actually eat them until I saw the young, pale, green-and-white, leek-shaped shoots at the Thursday Market in the South ...

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 ...

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 ...