Mainely Phenology 6/30/18

Producers/Hosts: Hazel Stark and Joe Horn

Cattail Pollen

Cattails are perhaps best known for their iconic sausage-shaped seed heads which playfully billow their fluffy seeds across the countryside. But this beautifully bucolic wetland wonder also holds a treasure-trove of wild foods, for which it has garnered the nickname “supermarket of the swamp.”

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