Wild rice – the food that grows on water

Wild rice – the food that grows on water

Toward mid-August, many northern Minnesotan lakes will be lined with the nodding, green stalks of wild rice. The nutritious state grain, also known as manoomin, grows in shallow, slow-moving waters across northern Minnesota, said Leanna Goose, an organizer with the Rise and Repair coalition and an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of the Ojibwe. It’s a keystone species, or an essential piece of the lake ecosystem, that absorbs excess water …