Springtime is a miracle. After the long cold winter, beautiful plants appear everywhere. The local garden centers are buzzing. Everyone is anxious to get their flowers and vegetable plants started. We ...

Elena Valeriote is a writer of stories about food, farming, culture, and travel that explore the connection between people and place. Her work has appeared in publications including Gastro Obscura, ...

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 peeled for these ephemeral edibles. Why? Because they are ...

The edible tips of ostrich ferns are a forager's delight. Find out where to look for fiddlehead ferns and how to prepare them. When you hear the word "fern," many things might come to mind. An elderly ...

Want to know more about fiddleheads? Here, the basics on stalking, preparation and storage. What do they taste like? They taste like asparagus. How can I tell if a fiddlehead is ready to eat? In the ...

I grew up in Vermont eating fiddleheads and didn't particularly care for them. I didn't appreciate the delicate flavor and rare seasonality of them or I suppose mostly, I didn't appreciate the way my ...

A SFoodie series on what to do with your farmers' market impulse buys and CSA box surprises. Fiddleheads, a springtime delicacy, are the edible coils of the immature Ostrich fern. They are foraged ...

OPB’s “Superabundant” explores the stories behind the foods of the Pacific Northwest with videos, articles — and this weekly newsletter. To keep you sated between episodes, we’ve brought on food ...

The fiddlehead micro-season is here, so get them now before they all unfurl into the fronds of ostrich ferns. “They popped up last Friday,” says Franca Tantillo of Buried Treasures, stalwart of the ...

More than 11,000 species of ferns cover our planet, but they're not all as feathery as the ones we see in our gardens and on forest footpaths would suggest. They range from the little clover-like ...

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FARMINGTON, Maine (WABI) - Another sure sign of spring in Maine is when we start seeing foragers out and about looking for fresh fiddleheads. This Saturday, fiddleheads will be getting all the love in ...