You’re very welcome. Hope you share your soup with us (well, a pic at least 
) when you make it 
A Smoky Salad That Captures Asparagus’s Sultry Side https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/magazine/asparagus-salad.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU8.pyml.el53XHgeTF66&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Yet another asparagus salad recipe - this time combined with another of @linguafood 's favourite ingredients: pistachio!
I like Honey and Co’s flavour combinations, so might give this a go.
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By me, the asparagus season has come to a close. Bumber, but we ate ourselves sick , and were happy with the great bounty our ditch provided us.
Around these parts (still in Berlin, located near one of the major asparagus fields), the season officially ends on the 24th. If it weren’t so GD hot, I’d be inclined to make another proper German asparagus meal. But I don’t think that’s gonna happen.
There’s always next year
We have a relatively long one (~ three months) here in Northern California, but it has come and gone by mid-June. None homegrown for me, but the farmers’ market provides.
Where are you in Northern California where asparagus is still grown commercially? In my part of the world - the San Joaquin Delta - there are practically no growers still in asparagus. Most of the asparagus we get in stores is from Mexico. Thousands of acres of former asparagus fields have been plowed under, replaced by other crops.
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I’m in the Bay Area. A bunch of farms that come to our local farmers’ markets grow it; many are located in Yolo County. Of course, asparagus isn’t their only concern.
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Although this article is nearly three years old, it’s probably even more true today. We used to buy asparagus directly from a packing shed outside Tracy (Crown King or King Crown, or something like that) where they sold it at full retail prices but more of the $$ ended up in the grower’s pockets since they didn’t have to transport it to market. I used to hunt in asparagus fields on Lower Jones Tract, but those fields are now corn, squashes, and tomatoes. It’s just not grown nearly as much as it used to be.
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Weapparently have another week or two of asparagus in SE Pennsylvania but who knows if this heat will effect that 
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