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Post by daylilydude on Oct 25, 2018 4:21:22 GMT -5
They put in a fruit and vegetable stand up in our lil area about 5 or 6 years ago and I don't think I have ever seen anyone use it? What do you think is happening and do you think it will change?
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Post by ladymarmalade on Oct 25, 2018 8:39:48 GMT -5
Wow, here in my community if you want produce you hit up the stands early or they are quickly picked over. Our big city farmer's markets are SO crowded and packed now that I don't even go to them anymore during peak season. I'll wait and go to the winter market where I think the farmers appreciate my business even more.
I do think our country is at the brink of an awakening about the food we eat. I think areas where produce stands are not in favor will bounce back- I just hope it happens before the current crop of vegetable farmers give up.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 25, 2018 9:31:27 GMT -5
We have very few farm stands any more; so much farmland was turned into housing developments in the last 40 years or so that you have to search around for them, and know where to look. Farther south, it's not as bad yet, but I'm not driving 30 or 40 miles for a few veggies, and there's nothing else I would be driving in the directions of those less developed areas for - sort of a catch 22 for the farmers.
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Post by paulf on Oct 25, 2018 9:45:10 GMT -5
Farmer's Markets are still thriving here in the mid-west. All the large towns and cities have one, two or several depending on the size community. Our county seat town of 3500 has two different markets. Group of folks even tried a farmer's market in our village of 130, but I guess I undermined it by continuing to give produce away by putting it in the Post Office. I should help them out. All the little towns around are still in the farmer's market business. Several have stands operated on the honesty principle...leave your money in the payment jar and only take what you pay for. I like that in this day of dishonesty.
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Post by september on Oct 25, 2018 9:47:07 GMT -5
No local produce stands here that I know of. Just a floating farmer's market that comes to town twice a week (maybe 3 times during heavy harvest times) but it's not very big. More likely to find temporary truck stands of fruit and vegetable shipped up from the deep south ahead of our season. Sometimes you might drive by a farm that has a sign by the road for eggs, or potatoes or such, but often the driveway is far from the house, and you don't know if the sign is still current or forgotten from previous years, so you feel hesitant to go in and bother them. This isn't really a farming area, although there are a few small market growers, some organic, that try to make a living at that.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 25, 2018 12:21:14 GMT -5
Where I live it is very common to see small tables with an umbrella set up at the end of people's driveways. This is self-serve produce with a payment jar on the table. Sometimes it is a money box with a padlock but it is the honor System.
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Post by bestofour on Oct 25, 2018 17:14:04 GMT -5
My county and the next county have wonderful farmers markets that are even open in the winter for people who grow in a greenhouse or grow winter greens or sell meat. It's great. I frequent them often and would miss them.
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