Yesterday, my friend Nikki and her three little girls and I went asparagus hunting. We went to a local park, which used to be a homestead that supplied a lot of produce for the little town of Colorado Springs and once even had six acres of asparagus. Nikki had seen the mature asparagus plants in the wilderness areas of the park each summer but hadn’t been able to catch them in the act of sprouting in the spring. The night before, I did a little research on the web to see what I could find out about hunting asparagus. The…