Spring Fling

The Harbingers of Spring

Spring Fling! Spring has to be the season I most look forward too. There is nothing quite like spring in the Pacific Northwest. A glorious time of year when spring emerges from winter’s cold grey rains. A vast green carpet of miner’s lettuce, stinging nettles, wood sorrel, and wild watercress emerges from deep within the dark forest.

Our farmer’s gardens brim with the season’s first sweet English peas, plump fava beans, AAA white asparagus, and green garlic. As the weather warms, fiddleheads and wild ramps sprout up in enormous fields in the Midwest. Briny…