Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice

"Real" wild rice grows wild in the clear lakes where we live. It is not genetically modified and has not been altered like most of the other grains available in the US. This wild rice requires just the right conditions to grow and only grows naturally in northern Minnesota and in Canada just north of us. The water has to be at a certain level, and it needs to flow slightly, but not too much, so that it would uproot the plants. The bottom of the lake needs to have rich humus, and the temperatures need to be like those you see in this area of the country. When given those conditions you are able to grow delightfully nutritious, healthy and natural rice that is actually a grass with large seed heads. The water fowl are quite attracted to it as well. Most of the grains we currently purchase in America such as wheat, brown rice, barley, soybeans and corn, have undergone years and years of hybridizing. Not one of these grains is natural anymore. Kamut is ancient wheat that was found in an Egyptian tomb. This was wheat, but much larger and much more nutritious than the wheat we currently have in America. All the other grains we use today other than quinoa, millet, amaranth and buckwheat have been tampered with. The real wild rice will not grow in rice paddies nor can it be cultivated. This is a natural grain, native to Minnesota, which is not a "farm crop" and can not be cultivated. While the hybrids grains have fewer nutrients than their ancestors, real wild rice is like those ancient grains. It grows on non depleted soils at the bottom of pristine lakes; it is planted naturally, and has the same nutritional value as it did years ago.