The Elusive Vegetable Farmers
My daughters and I started the Manor Farmers’ Market, a 501c(3) nonprofit organization, almost two years ago, with a great deal of help and support from Stan Voelker then President of the Manor Chamber of Commerce. We thought since Manor being a traditionally farming & ranching community it would be an easy fit. Well, all these huge vegetable gardens you see out here, they give the vegetables away if they grow too much.
So here I am once again at the beginning of the vegetable season looking for the elusive vegetable farmer. I know you are out there. Just today an elderly couple, Bernard and Gladys, told me not only have the same people been buying their eggs for twenty years but when they grow too much they simply put a sign on the fence in front of their home. Hummm.... There is a local man whose wife is a retired Manor postal worker. Every year I stop by to admire his melon patch and casually bring up the farmers market. Not yet. There is Mr. J right down my street, whose wife, children and grandchildren have all participated in the market. When I spy him out working his field I stop by suggesting he could make back the money he spent on seed. Alas, to no avail.
I know you are out there. You can trade broccoli for beer soap. Parsnips for pickles. Discuss what is currently eating your cabbages or roses. We have a cute little cubicle for your cumbersome cucumbers, a place for you plethora of parsley, room to relieve you of your rampant radishes Enjoy an afternoon of conversation with neighbors and friends in our lovely park. Come on by!
For more information visit the market on Wednesday, any time of year, from 4 to 7 pm at Jennie Lane Smart Park in beautiful downtown Manor. This is the little park with the pavilion, gazebo, new exercise equipment and free wi-fi. Or call me, Denise, Manor Farmers’ Market Manager, at 278-1611. Check out our website at www.manorfarmersmarket.org and print out a free market buck.
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