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Originally Posted by cynwldkat
Which veggies and fruits are ready now or almost ready to be sold locally? I see stands off the road and they look to be just little personal stands that sell to the public. Are there many of these in NC? I live near Albemarle and am very interested in purchasing some FRESH veggies and fruit!! Yum!
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On the coast of North Carolina in Cedar Point along Route 24 there are two good sized vegetable stands, Buck's Corner Farm and Winberry's.
We buy fruit and vegetables from both of them regularly. We started getting fresh
strawberries from Bucks Corner Farm just before the middle of April, and the week before last my wife made strawberry freezer jam with the last of their crop.
Just before the end of April, they started having really tasty hot house tomatoes. They were excellent.
I know the new potatoes we have been eating are local and the corn was local starting a week or so ago. The cabbage on the coast has been local for a while. We have also had local green peas and beans.
The farm stands are typically very proud of their produce so they will tell you what is theirs and what they have gotten from a distributor.
There are some of these in the Mt. Airy area also. I am guessing almost every area of North Carolina has some. We have been to some very nice produce stands in the Cornelius area with our daughter.
I wrote a post about one spot in Cornelius,
The Tomato Hunter's Paradise, last year when our tomato crop was decimated by deer at our home in Virginia.
The real tomatoes along the coast were starting to come in last week. I am expecting to have some ripe tomatoes in
my little garden before the fourth of July.
Anything will be better than my deer mauled tomatoes from last year. I called them
the world's ugliest tomatoes.
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Farmers' Markets in North Carolina?
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