There is a really cool gardening group on here. You should join

I was just inspecting the garden and getting completely exhausted looking at all the work I need to do. This is after yet another skirmish with trumpet vines and honeysuckle on the perimeter.
I snapped a few pics of our asparagus patch. We've let half go to seed and growth for the season. I'm still snapping stalks off part of the other half. I'll be making pesto with it tonight.

Yes and it is easy.

I have several volunteer clumps of asparagus that grow in my area and there are many asparagus farms here in Michigan. It is my understanding that it takes more than one year to get a crop established so one must be willing to patient and willing to wait.

It grew on a relatively shaded bit of ground where I grew up in West Virginia. It was mostly a pile of shale, but well fertilized by horses.

I've always wanted to, but I'm too impatient to wait that first year or two =p It grew wild near our old home in Idaho, though, that was lovely. I wish my other half enjoyed it more.

My wife’s mother and stepfather grow them and she eats them, I won’t touch them, taste as nasty as they smell but, they said they planted a few years ago, they regrow every year but you can’t harvest/eat them for 1-3 years after initial planting, you have to let the “mature”