It just seems so WRONG..... Harvesting Asparagus.

[FlaGranny]

6. When I was a small child

my uncle raised asparagus commercially. Workers went through the field cutting the asparagus and stacking it in piles about 5 or 10 feet apart. He had a horse that he used in the field who knew his job so well that he stopped in just the right spot so that the back of the wagon was in the right spot for someone to pick up each stack of "grass" (that's what my uncle called it - seriously) and put it in the wagon. He took the horse to the first row and the horse never needed another cue.

As a kid I would never touch asparagus. It wasn't until I learned to cook it myself that I liked it. Mother cooked it until it was mush so she could eat the stringy parts. Bleh! Disgusting. Sometimes I think she did that so as not to waste anything. She was a young woman during the depression and during WWII we had a large Victory Garden to supply us with fresh vegetables. She had learned not to waste and that did not bode well for the asparagus.