The trick is to mark the patch, and then come back early in the early spring and start looking for the shoots. At this stage they are as easy to spot as they will ever be. The wispy green fronds will have turned yellow, and the berries will be bright red. The best way to find wild asparagus is to look for it out of season, in late summer or early fall. The wild asparagus we find in New England does not have wild roots, but is, instead, feral an escapee from domesticated asparagus in colonists' gardens native to Europe, Asia and North Africa. How could anyone read that and not want to go foraging? When I am out along the hedgerows and waysides gathering wild asparagus, I am 12 years old again, and all the world is new and wonderful as the spring sun quickens the green things into life after a winter's dormancy." But I have a secret they don't know about. "They think it is much simpler to merely buy the asparagus one wants at the supermarket. "My neighbors often smile when they see me by the roadside with my asparagus knife and pail," Gibbons wrote. But the excitement of finding them can't be beat, especially since I have been looking for wild asparagus since I first read about it in Gibbons' book back in the 1960s. It was followed by “Stalking the BlueEyed Scallop,” “Stalking the Healthful Herbs,” “Beachcomber's Handbook,” “Feast on Diabetic Diet,” and “Stalking the Good Life,” which was published in 1971.The asparagus in my field won't be ready to harvest and eat until next spring, the edible shoots have unraveled and unfolded into feathery fronds. His first book found an enthusiastic readership in a period of growing interest in natural and organic foods. Moving to Pennsylvania, he studied the flora and fauna of the state and was on the staff of Pendle Hill, a study center of the Society of Friends in Wallingford, Pa. The family moved to New Mexico, and he pursued this lore later on the West Coast and in Hawaii, where he studied from 1947 to 1951 and taught at a vocational school. Gibbons, who lived in a farmhouse in nearby Beavertown, turned writer with the publication in 1962 of his first book, “Stalking the Wild Asparagus.” But the book was the outgrowth of life‐long fascination with wild foods, starting in his boyhood in Clarksville, Texas.
The cause of death was not immediately disclosed.
29-Euell Gibbons, author of books on natural foods, was pronounced dead on arrival in Sunbury Community Hospital tonight.
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