Early/Spring ingredients - need some sourcing help!

All -

Trying to cook a seasonal dinner this weekend and am curious if anyone has seen any of the Spring items available in the grocery. I am assuming whole foods might always have some of these, but I was hoping to possibly get local(er) fresh produce (not from Chile).

Was hoping to find perhaps one or two of the following: fava beans, english peas, ramps, green garlic, white asparagus, hericot verts, wax beans, or anything else traditionally in the spring time.

Thanks for any help!


P.S. I realize a farmer's market would be my best option, but I am unsure if I will be able to get to one as the dinner is Saturday night and I have to leave town on Friday

Not to burst your bubble here, but you are not going to find any of those things local. It's too early in the season.

'tis true that most of those things are at least a month away locally. At last Saturday's Green City Market, I did find the season's first local fresh-dug garlic, and some tasty shallot greens. I suspect you'd be able to find them again this Saturday at Green City. But that's pretty much it as far as local spring-season vegetables go. It is too early to base a menu around local springtime ingredients, unless they're things you preserved a year ago.

While I doubt it's local, I saw green garlic at H-Mart last week, complete with dirt. I wasn't looking in the areas where your other items are, but I'd bet they have them.

Well, I appreciate the input. Tough break I suppose, but luckily the entire meal was not contingent on these ingredients.

I will start looking again in a month!