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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Just after the snow melts but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy riverbanks in search of the... Fiddlehead: This Fern Is For Eating Just after the snow ...

Give it up for spring. Slide into those flip-flops, spruce up the flower garden and drink a frosty beer at your favorite outdoor patio bar. Succumb to spring fever with the triumphant return of all ...

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 ...