Spring has Sprung!

Well, yesterday was Mother's Day. My only children are of the 4-legged, furry variety- 1 dog and 2 cats. I hope that all the moms had a lovely day, spent doing whatever they enjoy best. And if your kids cooked for you, I hope that it was good and nothing too crazy. (One friend mentioned that her daughter made her a special drink involving milk, yogurt, peanut butter and several varieties of ice pop, LOL)

Anyway, since my mom lives way too far away for a day visit and his mom and dad came on Saturday to celebrate Mother's Day, we had Sunday to do with as we liked. It was really nice to have a day with my hubby. He's been away for work so much lately and I've missed him. But I digress...

Every Sunday from May through November a nearby town has a really great farmers' market. This particular farmers' market requires that the food sold there all be locally grown, and most of the vendors stick with organic practices on their farms. The prices are reasonable and the foods they sell are wonderful- fresh, tasty and beautiful. It's really one of the things I enjoy most about the warmer months.

So that's where we went yesterday morning.

It's very early in the growing season, so there wasn't a huge selection of foods to be had. There were the non-seasonal food sellers- bread baker, chicken & egg seller, cow & pork seller, 2 goat cheese mongers and the honey guy. The veggie sellers had a few things available- we got some nice green onions, asparagus and baby zucchini. Most of the veggie vendors were selling all sorts of wonderful varieties of seedlings, though.

I am so excited to be able to report that we will have several varieties of heirloom tomato, as well as green pepper, cubanelle pepper (aka banana pepper) zucchini, yellow summer squash, standard basil, lime basil, cilantro, thyme, savory and marjoram. There were a few other things I had been hoping to plant, but, according to my husband, that's all we have room for in the current garden bed.

So this morning's breakfast is to be a locally grown egg sandwich on a millet roll and tonight's supper will consist of pork chops, roasted veggies from the farmers' market and either rice or potatoes. (I'll figure out something for lunch.) I truly love that my farmers' market is open again!