How to Find, Clean, and Cook Fiddlehead Ferns For most of us, turkey season is also fiddlehead season. So, while you’re tromping the woods—whether the hunting is slow or not—keep your eyes ...

Cultivating ostrich ferns is a sustainable and low-cost way to have access to your own fiddleheads—to eat or to sell—without compromising a wild habitat. Above: Ostrich ferns growing in Maine.

Just after the snow melts but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy riverbanks in search of the fiddlehead fern. It looks like the scrolled top of a ...

The guide includes directions for identifying the 28 most common of the 56 ferns found in Vermont. The popular ostrich fern, in its early fiddlehead form, is currently in great demand on dinner tables ...

"Fiddlehead" does not refer to a species of fern, but rather a stage in the plant's development, when the tender stalks have emerged but the fronds have yet to unfurl. If your timing is perfect ...