Fiddleheads are one of the season's most desired greens — just make sure you know how to prepare them.(iStock) For most of us, turkey season is also fiddlehead season.

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.

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 ...

In this episode of Forage, chef Shawn Adler demonstrates how to properly identify wild fiddleheads, the stage of growth at which they're edible, and how to safely and sustainably harvest them.

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 ...

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 best way to forage fiddleheads is to look for the fully leafed-out ferns at the height of summer, when they’re easiest to identify. Lady ferns, with their feathery fronds, are common throughout ...

A dish made of fiddlehead ferns, duck confit and pasta is prepared by O'Malley. Just after the snow melts, but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy ...

"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 ...