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It’s fiddlehead season and Mainers go absolutely nuts for this peculiar green.

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Basically they’re just new, unfurled fern fronds but people guard their harvest locations closely and take the secret to their grave.

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Lord Dudley Mountcatten is still demanding his morning coffee.

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Cats. They’re creatures of habits too.

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The sides of Maine’s highways are turning out to be perfect places for solar farms. Panels are popping up everywhere.

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In case you were wondering just how big the giant roof lobster on top of the restaurant that sells the giant lobster roll actually is.

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    1. An extremely expensive piece of folk art. A copper hermit crab in a large conch shell.
      There was an artist who sold in pricey shops when we lived in NC. Every year for Xmas or my birthday the husband would buy me one. I have the crab, a turtle, a lion fish and a cicada. I used to have a scorpion but his leg snapped off and we gave it to a friend to weld. Never saw it again.
      😥

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  3. We have them growing wild in the yard but never eat them. Cathy found about them in a herbal medicine course she took a few years ago, like twenty four.
    You can get a rebate or a tax credit or something for installing solar on your property. We inquired and were interested until we found out how many of our trees were going to have to be cut. We like our trees and are willing to pay to preserve them.
    I would eat the meat from a lobster roll but not that janky ass slice of crappy grocery store white bread. I’m not eating any fried clams either, after my brush with death.

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    1. The roll is key. It has to be light in texture, buttered and lightly grilled. If done right it’s heaven.
      We have the perfect house and land for solar but I don’t know…

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      1. We went to this place in Portland. It was downtown, right on the bay, but looked kind of down at the heels. Cathy had a lobster roll on wonder bread or some pasty crap like that and I had the fried clams of doom. I don’t know if it would have killed me, but the guy in the next room was ready to put me out of my misery. One thing good about solar: If a power line fall, as long as you don’t step on it, it’s no big deal. You can take a shower anytime you want.

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      2. There used to be a lot of dives down on the waterfront. It’s undergone a massive transformation in the past 5-10 years. Fancy restaurants, boutique shops, high end cocktail bars. It’s called the Old Port now. Bring your wallet.
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      2. I live in the province next door to Maine and have been picking and eating fiddleheads all my life (61 years and coun🙂). I was horrified, the first time I had to actually PAY for them (after I grew up and moved to another province). They are delicious and – as one of the earliest greens (early spring) something fresh we all look forward to. They are definitely not toxic but as they tend to grow near water sources, you have to make sure the water in question is safe and clean.

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      4. Thank you for clearing that up for me. It’s weird that we get so taken back when we’re asked to pay for something we’ve had for free for years, lol. When I was a kid I use to eat wild spinach that my grandfather would pick and ramps, wild onions. Now they cost an arm and a leg in the supermarkets.

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  10. Fiddle heads are also very popular in Vermont where pickling is the preferred method of preparation. I did a post last year on fiddle head ferns. I was coerced into foraging for them and for my trouble I was gifted with several jars of pickled fiddle head ferns which, as I recall, were quite tasty.

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