Here Be Monsters
HBM083: Sweet Like Snap Peas
Ryan thinks the Clinton Cemetery's deep-rooted asparagus taste so good because of the natural quality of their fertilizer.
By Jeff Emtman • • 12m ListenRyan Graves thinks that store-bought asparagus is as flavorless as potatoes. But that’s just because he’s spoiled on the really good stuff.
His preferred crop grows wild among the tombstones at Clinton Cemetery, hidden on an old gravel road between the towns of Pullman, Washington and Moscow, Idaho. Most who are buried there died over 100 years ago.
That intervening century left the cemetery mostly forgotten and overgrown. And Ryan thinks the deep-rooted asparagus taste so good because of the natural quality of their fertilizer.
Ryan Graves also appears on HBM042: Deers. Jeff Emtman produced this episode.
Music: The Black Spot
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Ryan Graves holding wild asparagus in Clinton Cemetery
