On the organic front down here in RI, we got our first shipment of CSA vegetables yesterday. It was a little sparse, being the first of the harvest, and such a cool spring and all, but we got young lettuce, mesclun mix, baby bok choi, mustard greens, leeks, chives, and a few tomatoes. Plus some bonus pesto since the farmer felt like this week's share was pretty thin. Fun Fun Fun!

Our farmer does the weekly farmer's market here in Providence, too. Maybe we'll go see what's shaking there on Saturday and report in.

Tomatoes, I'm impressed!! How did he do that? Hothouse? Also, he made you pesto or pesto fixins?

What varieties of head lettuce are you harvesting?

Hi Maryetta,

We are harvesting Tom Thumb, which is a small buttercrunch/bibb type and we are just starting to harvet Black Seeded Simpson, which is a green leaf type and seems to grow like crazy in the early spring. Hopefully, within a week we will also have Merlot, which is a red leaf lettuce.

They must be hot house tomatoes, though I didn't ask. He also had small yellow tomatoes, which I suppose could have been farmed outside because they were smaller.

The pesto is pre-made. He also had salsa, which was premade, presumably last year? Or we could have gotten half a dozen eggs. The salsa, pesto and eggs are for sale throughout the season, but not included in our share normally. He must also sell them at the farmer's market.