Editor’s note: We highly recommend listening to this story. Somewhere off the highway in Western New Hampshire, I’m meeting with a group of foragers in a parking lot at an undisclosed location. Lush ...

Few foods look more fetching on the plate than fiddleheads, those vibrant green coils that emerge in moist forests each spring. Aptly named, a fiddlehead is the new growth of a fern, with a curled ...

Iris Weaver reaches for a plant while teaching a class on foraging, May 8, 2025, in Wenham, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Standing barefoot in a grassy patch of dandelions, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring is in full swing, which means a Maine delicacy is in season: fiddleheads. They’re edible ostrich ferns that haven’t ...

When the thaw of winter is finally over and spring rolls around, fiddlehead ferns are one of the first things to pop up — the curled fronds of ferns yet to unfurl into their full, leafy shape. One of ...

Here in the Northeast United States, our snow is finally melting away, the maple sap is finishing up its spring run, and the sunlight is casting a beautiful glow well into the evening. All of this is ...

Foraging in New Jersey picks up in April with ramps, mushrooms, stinging nettles, fiddlehead ferns and more blooming. Dozens of restaurants in North Jersey, including Summit House, create unique ...