Minnesota’s green rice law makes it illegal to harvest unripe rice. Even within harvest season, someone caught harvesting rice that isn’t ready may get 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Wild rice grows naturally in water all over the country, from Connecticut to Texas, though it is most abundant in the Great Lakes region of the Midwest. In fact, it's the official grain of Minnesota!

The state fair's official new foods this year include bison meatball subs, pie crust desserts, coconut shrimp skewers and ...

Here are the official new fair foods for 2025: Savory deep-fried bites of ground black-eyed peas, onions, jalapeños, cilantro ...

2¼ cups all-purpose flour; ½ tsp salt; 1 tsp lemon zest; 1 tsp cinnamon; 2 tsp each: baking soda and baking powder; 2 large eggs; 2 tbsp brown sugar; 2 cups buttermilk ...

It's happening already. The Minnesota State Fair has unveiled its highly anticipated list of new foods for the 2025 ...

ST. PAUL – Minnesota Farmers Union is thrilled to announce that three of its new fair foods were selected for the coveted 2025 Minnesota State Fair New Fair Foods List.

So, the tribe decided to help it along by transplanting wild rice seed from Ojibwe reservations in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota. Wild rice had once been abundant in the Oneida and ...