Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

As the leaves come down, we begin to notice plants such as cattails that will persist into winter and perhaps until spring. Native cattails have long provided food, shelter, medicine, and more to ...

“It’s really weird to think that people actually eat this,” Ian Rossman said. Growing up, he saw cattails growing in a ditch by his house all the time, but thought of them as weeds or possibly ...

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 ...