07/05/2026
16 years ago, Blake Spalding and the farmers at our 6.5 acre farm planted hundreds of asparagus crowns at Hell’s Backbone’s No-Harm Farm that we call Blaker’s Acres. Our farm was established in 2005 and is now in its 21st year!
These beautiful green spears are one of the first things we harvest each season and our favorite flavor of spring. Cared for properly, they’re a perennial delight, growing anew each April and May and then gracing our menu for about 6 weeks.
This year, we’re refreshing the asparagus beds with 200 new crowns that we’ll be carefully placing this week while it’s still cool.
We serve the tender shoots lightly sautéed with our she-devil hot sauce laced hollandaise,that’s made with egg yolks from our no-kill flock of industrious chickens (who also eat all of our kitchen and leftover plate scrapings, keeping edible material out of the trash bins).
This dish brings together everything we envisioned this restaurant to be: home-grown, freshly harvested, healthy food, brought from our hands and hearts directly to your belly.
photos are by Mary McIntyre featuring our dear lead farmer Birdie & head chef Tyler Warren 💚