Mill Road Farms- working hard to feed the masses

So the best part of doing farmers markets is the friends you meet along the way.  Sure, there are the customers that come back every week, and tell you about what they made with what you have grown, and are excited to see what each week brings.  We love those friends, and encourage them to keep coming back.  We would not be here without them.  But there is a unique friendship that forms along all the vendors.  Sometimes, it is just a simple hello each week, courteous, but not overt.   Sometimes, it may just be a nod.  Then other times, like one of the markets we are in, there is a true comrade.   We all might be selling the same stuff, but there is not a competition, but rather encouragement of each other.  And then there is the best benefit of it all- we are all going through the same thing.  So when the rain just won't stop, and our fields are covered in weeds, there is the farmer who was just doing the same thing the night before.  Or when talking about how our beehives are faring this year, there is the farmer who also had a mouse devour a hive (apparently they are Artisanal mice and need honeycomb with their cheese), and who informs you that there is actually a device specifically meant to prohibit this from happening again.  But to be careful of the wax moths, they can go undetected for weeks. Normally it would be a one upmanship going on in most industries, but in our community, it is all about helping one another.  Rather than tell a customer, we don't have this product this week, or we are out, we will send them to the next farmer if we know they have it, and they do the same for us.  It truly is a beautiful thing, and I know we will be sad once the winter hits and we don't get to see these awesome people all the time.  Until that time comes though, keep on visiting all of us at the markets, and keep on growing!