What a gift Elliot Coleman has given us by sharing the oh-so-simple but genius mini-hoop house. Spring comes earlier to those gardens that have one or too rows covered with 3-foot-high, half-round ...

Fiddleheads taste fresh and green, with a flavour similar to asparagus, green peas or green beans. There is one difference — they need to be cooked before you eat them. (Julie Van Rosendaal/CBC - ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve always loved spring, even when I lived in the mild climate of California, because that’s when wild flowers dusted color over the usually brown hillsides. Now that I live where the winters are ...

On April 14, the University of Maine and the University of New Hampshire kicked off a six-part series on spring gardening with a lecture on harvesting fiddleheads. The lecture was moderated by Donna ...

Spring has finally locked in for us in the Northeast. For me I know we're solid when ramps and fiddleheads are in the markets. Fiddlehead ferns or fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds of a young ...

This time of year many of us spring clean our pantries, checking for expired or stale foods and making a list of healthy meal ingredients to stock. Doing so can help boost the nutritional value of ...

Fiddleheads grew in a lush, swaying, lime-green swath around my Quebec childhood home. In my mind’s eye, they grew 10 feet deep, and every year they extended their reach farther into the lawn via ...

For many, it's the first feed of lobster, the first round of golf or the first tulips in bloom. But for some, one of the best signs of spring on P.E.I. is fiddlehead season. Kate MacQuarrie, the ...

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