OLD TOWN, Maine (NEWS CENTER)-- It is spring time and a Maine delicacy is growing, fiddleheads. If you know what to look for, they are an easy plant to spot. "It has a smooth stem, it's that green, it ...

Chances are, you're spotting piles of fiddleheads at your farmer's market or in the produce aisle right about now. What are they? The coil-shaped greens are the unopened young fronds of the ostrich ...

Fiddlehead-foraging season is winding down in Chittenden County. Maybe you’ve foraged all of the tasty, wild, asparagus-like ostrich-fern tips you can eat, and then some. Now what do you do with them?

This recipe is courtesy of Kitchen Vignettes. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Transfer the fiddleheads into the boiling water and boil them for 15 minutes (*please note this step is very ...

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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 ...