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More joys of foraging

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 8:58am
Food For Health
By
Cynthia Hochswender
cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com
An ostrich fern unfolding its fiddlehead on a dewy morning in Lakeville. Photo by Marsden Epworth

If you are like me (or more precisely, if you are me), you’ve been out in the woods a lot lately, searching for sweet spring edibles. We’ve already discussed ramps. I probably won’t tell you about morels, because there don’t seem to be that many of them around this year, and I don’t want you to take any that might otherwise find their way into my life.

But we can talk about fiddlehead ferns.

The woods here are full of ferns that are just now pushing their curled heads up and beginning to stretch their long necks so that they look like ... fiddleheads.

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