Around here, asparagus season feels like the real start of spring. Once the first local bundles start showing up at farm stands and markets, everybody starts looking for it. People in the Pioneer Valley have been calling it “Hadley Grass” for generations. The Connecticut River Valley turned out to be a really good place to … Read more

What to Look for and Why It Matters The asparagus comes in here a little later than most places. You can buy it earlier, of course. It’s been coming up in California and Mexico for weeks by the time anything starts pushing through the soil around the Pioneer Valley. By then it’s already been cut, … Read more