fiddleheads!!!! love 'em...a friend once made cream of fiddlehead soup and oh gosh it was good...come to think of it i have made cream of nettles soup and it was also fabulous...(use a basic cream of spinach or kale recipe; be sure to clean the nettles thoroughly and rinse and blanch them whole before chopping to avoid severe pain)

as for the ferns, i think they may be coming up, i thought i saw some the other day in the suburbs, but have not been to the woods recently enough to see them..they are not in stores yet at any rate...