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It’s here! The first Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance delivery is here! Isn’t it gorgeous?

The contents of my pickup (clockwise from top): green onions, rhubarb, spinach, salad mix (mesclun), baby bok choy and, in the middle, lemon balm. There were some tough decisions: spinach or lettuce? baby bok choy or chard or purple mizuna or sorrel? lemon balm or green garlic, garlic chives, regular chives, thyme, oregano? rhubarb or mushrooms (oyster, morel or some bright yellow type)?

And what to do with first? A stir fry of bok choy and green onions and nuts? Or maybe a spinach and mesclun salad? What to do? I’m just so pleased to have to decide.

And the farmers were pleased to have it to offer. They’d planned to have two weeks of “early bird” deliveries, but they didn’t have enough food, thanks to this long, cold spring, to distribute last week. Regular weekly pickup begins next week.

Yes, it’s unseasonably cold outside. Yes, the National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory for tonight. But it’s spring! Hooray! And I’ve got the greens to prove it!

An added bonus: Stu Shafer, one of the farmers, told me that a new subscriber, when asked on the registration form, said he (or she) heard about Rolling Prairie through this blog. That made me feel very good. Thanks, whoever you are!

Addendum: I wrote this Monday evening before dinner but just now am posting it. I wound up making a stir-fry of bok choy, green onion and walnuts, with a little garlic, ginger, red pepper, tamari. The greens were fab; I could have done with fewer walnuts.