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 ...

Many people who grew up in New Jersey in the '70s, '80s and '90s may remember a summertime tradition of burning punks, also called cattails, to help keep mosquitoes away. News 12 New Jersey’s Brian ...

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 ...

Cattails are one of the most common wild foods. But it never occurred to me to actually eat them until I saw the young, pale, green-and-white, leek-shaped shoots at the Thursday Market in the South ...

Could cattails help to solve phosphorus and chloride pollution in some of our lakes and wetlands? A new pilot initiative led ...

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 ...