August-September, 2020
On this first morning here, as I sometimes do on the first morning of a camping trip, I jumped in the big white truck for a drive around the community/area that surrounds the campground. I like getting acquainted with where I am and what’s out there. I had a good time this morning!
For one thing, it was a beautiful day. And for another thing, there were lots of country farms in the area, selling all manner of edible produce and flowers to anyone who wished to buy. I could barely choose which produce stand to stop at, there were so many.
The folks above had just bought a bunch of fresh carrots, and probably other stuff too.
There were large fields of all sorts of crops. The field above is corn. I’m sure the size of the field above doesn’t hold a candle to the size of corn fields in the “corn belt” of the USA and Canada, but it looked like a huge field of corn to me!
Friends of mine had mentioned “The Farm” and had suggested that I stop there. As soon as I saw the sign, I pulled over and parked.
The woman walking away from the produce stand is one of the owners. I chatted with her a bit to find that she prefers a smaller “stand” to sell things from. That way she can restock it with fresh produce. She feels her produce is better that way. While I was there, at least a dozen local vehicles stopped by and bought produce … and a few visitors did too, like me. I always suspect the best place to shop is where the locals shop.
While I was there, she invited me to walk around the farm and look at things and take pictures. She didn’t have to invite me twice. 🙂
Chickens! Back behind their home was a large shed/barn, and back behind that were these two large fenced areas with dozens of chickens in them. Cluck, cluck, cluck!
Around on the other side of the house, on the road side of the house and near the produce stand was this large field of sunflowers. The owner told me she sells lots of sunflowers, but mostly she sells sunflower seeds.
As can be seen, there were all different sizes of sunflowers.
Before I left “The Farm” and headed back to the trailer for lunch, I purchased a dozen fresh eggs, a plentiful supply of fresh tomatoes, some squash and some cucumbers, and a few fresh herbs, and, of course, a nice happy bunch of sunflowers. What a delightful morning.
