Fiddleheads.

Yes it's that time of year.

Although they¡¯re only in season for a few weeks of the year, fiddlehead ferns are a gourmet delight. These tightly coiled, fun vegetables are plucked from a few different species of ferns in the spring. Typically a foraged crop, fiddleheads have become such a popular seasonal ingredient among chefs and other foodies that growing them on a commercial basis has become a sound investment.

Source.https://www.hobbyfarms.com/grow-fiddlehead-ferns-for-market/

Sack river in Fryeburg , Denmark  maine should be up by next weekend. A delectible in the culinary world with prices retail avg 4. 00 to up to 24 in high end southern French whole food markets.

Fiddleheads are A very visible food if deep fat fried it tastes like fried clams. If boiled and strained a little salt vinegar and butter it tastes like asparagus . The ostrich fern is back , better days are coming. 

hahaha.  Few people here on covers probably have any idea wtf a fiddlehead is besides you and I.  I have never eaten them fried so going to have to try that Johnny.

your really going to like them .

@nature1970

Yeah, well, I've just become a member of the Native American Church and got a couple of free peyote buttons for signing up.  If I was a betting man...  odds say you'll like these a lot more.

 hook a brother up...lol

Gotta say, I¡¯ve never heard of a fiddlehead until now. Thought you were going to talk about a bluegrass festival.

I do like me some asparagus so I¡¯ll have to try it some day

There a nat8ve fern that grows and goes by in about a week. There are 5 species that are edible I concentrate on the ostrich fern. Dark green with a copper husk is easily recognizable. 

I'm a hill-billy like you.Fry the young ones in bacon grease and they taste like bacon.

Picked a few pounds just coming up here in a few early spots. Fun over n8ght in the river came back with about 30 lbs of the greens.

Really look forward to this time of year. 

Kept thinking about my dad , it was a bit lonesome at a few moments. But enjoyed the trip to gather this edible fern.

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Tried to change my pic to fiddleheads, an the attempt to upload my own footage from Maine streams was futile. The video gives you a sense of the unspoiled streams 

Where this edible fern is found. 

It is they are up and gone in a week and about 50 to 100 mile increments of the three or four day season that ostrich fern has gone by. It is still edible but like asparagus as it ages the stem turns harder until it's unpalatable.

I thought about dehydrating smoke em in the smoke house and boiling em . After for some mystique Virginia ham taste but never got that far. Best is bread and butter pickles using fiddleheads from a 2 hour ice bath instead of cucumbers or onions.

You are correct sir! have no idea

thought it might have been a fish or crestation.lol