It needs water to grow like all plants, but doesn't grow submerged in water. Water is used to flood rice fields in order to harvest the grain, not to grow it. Wild rice actually grows in the water ...

Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread rice production, farmers grow belts ...

But aside from cooking her famous Ojibwe fried rice, Leah didn’t feel connected to the significance of Manoomin — a sacred plant revered ... by learning to harvest wild rice MPR News senior ...