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 ...

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When spring blooms, it comes with a variety of unique fruits and vegetables. Fiddlehead ferns are one of those hard-to-find items that are extremely eye-catching. When young, the shoot looks like a ...

Mid-May in the Northland is a remarkable time. Spring’s pace is so fast that it is hard to follow all that is happening. Within our yards, we see flowers blooming, green grass growing, garden ready ...

Discover a selection of the best ferns for containers to provide texture and movement - these are perfect for small gardens, ...

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 ...

I walk the trail searching for tiny green curls among the towering spruce trees popping up through the sphagnum moss. I’m looking for fiddleheads. Actually, the common name for the curly top of all ...

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 ...

As a kid, I remember watching time-lapse videos of a flower blooming or of the sun racing across the sky. Of course, things don't happen that way in nature with one possible exception: sprouting, ...

When we go through this time of May, it is hard to not notice all the happenings among the trees. At the start of the month, they began opening leaves, the smaller trees first. This was quickly ...