Since the fiddleheads weren’t up yet when we checked on one of our favorite picking spots the weekend before last, it was clearly time for another visit to the spot this past weekend. We’d had a few days of good sun, and if our educated guesses were correct, the picking would be perfect. Almost every […]
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Family Fiddleheading
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Fiddleheads are Up!
It’s fiddlehead season here in Maine again! This is usually the first foraging outing of the spring for us, and it’s always exciting when the time grows near. Along with the opening of tiny, tender new buds on trees, and the subtle shift to the mild, damp, earthy smell and feel of early spring […]
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Maple Syrup!
Remember the lonely maple tree out in front of our house that we tapped a few weeks ago? Well, she is indeed bearing sap–and lots of it! We have one five gallon bucket hanging on the tree, and for the past few weeks we’ve been emptying full buckets of sap about every three days–though sometimes […]
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Tapping the Lone Maple
Finally, we’ve had a slight (and what I’m sure will be temporary) break from the cold temperatures and the mountains of snow that January and February have brought us. With just this little hint of sunnier and milder winter days, both Ben and I have maple syrup on the brain. So, this past weekend, […]
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Freezing Fiddleheads
We went fiddlehead picking again mid last week, and finally they were up for real! We got to enjoy a couple of meals of this delicious springtime treat, and I froze the rest. Given that the season for fiddleheads is so short, I really like to preserve as many as I can to enjoy later […]
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Fiddleheading in the Rain!
Every year about mid-April, my husband Ben and I, as well as my brother John, start keeping our eyes on fiddlehead progress. We each check on our favorite fiddleheading spots, noting progress, and call eachother with updates, like “Nothing yet”, or “just starting to poke through”, or (if we waited a little too long) “we […]
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