Fuller quoted in NHPR segment on fiddleheads
David Fuller, an agriculture and nontimber forest products professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a New Hampshire Public Radio “Ask Sam” segment focusing on fiddleheads. “There’s literally an army of foragers out there harvesting fiddleheads for this market,” said Fuller. The typical fiddlehead forager “likes to be outdoors foraging, they may well be retired or partially retired, or they may have a small business of their own and they do this to supplement incomes,” according to Fuller, who told NHPR a good picker can collect 100 to 150 pounds a day. “There are enough wild fiddleheads out there to satisfy the market, so I don’t think the farming is really all that economically viable,” Fuller said.