On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 03:09:51 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Monday, October 19, 2020 at 12:55:33 AM UTC-4, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 18:52:14 -0500, Rich11223 wrote:
>>
>> > > jmcquown wrote:
>> > > I had some errands to run so I stopped at the nearby farm stand.
>> > For a
>> > > whopping $7 I brought home:
>> > >
>> > > 3 zucchini
>> > > 3 yellow (crookneck) squash
>> > > 1 small cabbage
>> > > 1 lb. of new potatoes
>> > > 1/2 lb. of snap beans
>> > > a large yellow onion
>> > >
>> > > All locally grown. I like to support the local farmers.
>> > >
>> > > Jill
>> >
>> > Great post will give it a try
>> <yawn>
>>
>> Wait... What's a "farm store"!?!?! Never heard of them. We don't
>> have these here.
>>
>> -sw
>
>Farm stand, not farm store.

Yes, and a farm stand is very different from a farmer's market. A
farm stand is as you say at the road in front of the actual farm, and
some farm stands are actually a large shed containing all sorts of
crops as they come into season.
The typical farmer's market is operated like a flea market, people
who don't do any farming buy up crops from a wholesaler who supplies
grocery stores and rents a space like in a flea market. The farmer's
market people follow the crops as per season.

>A farmer will set up a table or something similar at the point where his driveway
>meets the road and place his produce on it. Usually there is an honor box where
>customers can leave cash for what they take.

I did that one year but it became a huge annoyance as people kept
ringing our bell to ask all sort of questions about when we'll have
such and such. It wasn't worth the trouble so we no longer do it.

>Right now, just down the road from my office is a trailer loaded with pumpkins
>and a sign displaying the price.
>
>Cindy Hamilton