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Old 08-05-2017, 06:00 AM
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Originally Posted by jblum315 View Post
Corn and Hanover tomatoes
My home in Central New York was surrounded by good rich farmland and truck farmers abound. There was a time (1960's) when I could drive over to Cherry Hill Road just minutes away from my home and ask Mr. Dennis for corn. Mr. Dennis obligingly would go out into his fields and pick me a bushel of corn for $1.00...corn that still had dew settling it and would be divided three ways my parents, my wife's parent and she and me

and because there were so many truck farmers produce stands along country roads were plentiful. Syracuse had a wonderful farmers market