We are very fortunate to have a wonderful, 100% organic farm stand in our area.  In an effort to embrace everything the organic ethic embodies (eating locally grown, pesticide-free foods), we headed over to Holly Hill Farm for our first visit of the year.

Before heading into the barn to see what they had for sale, we had to stop outside to visit the various farm animals.

You may be wondering why we're wearing parkas in May.  A week of record rainfall in New England meant we needed something a little more heavy duty than raincoats.

The very noisy roosters ventured from their coop to check us out.

We'd heard the farm's locally famous arugala was now available.

Unfortunately, many other people had heard that too.  In fact, all of their greens were totally sold out with the exception of the few stray pieces you see here.

I guess with weather like this everyone needed a taste of spring!

Fortunately, the asparagus was plentiful (and was on our grocery list anyway!).

Looks like lots of other veggies will soon be ready for harvesting. 

All I can say is, you can certainly tell the difference between this and the stuff that 's trucked in to your local grocery store from who-knows-where.   Crisp, green, and free of those little wrinkles asparagus gets when it's been sitting around too long.

I was going to take a picture of it cooked (lightly steamed).  But we ate it all before I could snap the photo.