fiddleheads

Fiddleheads are ready right now in Aroostook County.

Gifted Belfast videographer Jeremy Grant introduces us to pro foragers, John and his father Daryl. They'll take us fiddleheadin' in an undisclosed location. Then after they clean 'em up, we can see how the various dishes turn out at a local restaurant. This is bona fide Maine farm to table in action right here.

We all know and (some of us) love the quintessential Maine summer staple, fiddleheads. Watch them get harvested, cleaned, and cooked in Jeremy T. Grant's video of the whole process!

It's that time of year when you see vendors along main streets across Maine and New Brunswick and people going door-to-door selling fiddleheads.

Ah, yes, those delicious little ferns can be found all over Maine, but only for a very short time. "Fiddleheads are the coiled tips of young ostrich ferns that grow near brooks, rivers and lakes in Maine during late April, May and early June, depending on when the snow has melted," an article on VisitMaine...

This week's photographer is Laura Shaw Stevenson of Franklin, Maine. Fiddleheads are indeed a Maine Thing.

It's an acquired taste and it looks like many Mainers love fiddleheads, because they have their own festival! Fiddlehead lovers will want to make the trek to Farmington this Saturday for the 5th Annual Fiddlehead Festival and local food day.

Love the decadent seasonal food that is the fiddlehead? Well how about attending a public Fiddlehead Supper? Two seatings will be available on Friday, May 15th, at 4:30 p.m. and  again at 6:30 p.m. at the Chapman Ridge Runners Snowmobile and ATV Club, located at 94 Town Hall Road in West Chapman.