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The Roy Martin’s
Roadside Market Stand Provides
“WELCOME FRIENDS” is the
sign over Martin’s Market in
Mastersonville and Mrs. Roy B.
(Esther) Martin is always on
hand to greet you when the
buzzer rings.
Martins grow about 95 percent
of the things they sell with sweet
corn and cantaloupes being their
specialties. They grow an early
yellow hybrid. White Jewel and
Silver Queen sweet corn to the
tune of 15 acres. They grow five
acres of cantaloupes. In addition
they grow about five acres of
other garden vegetables Starting
with asparagus in May their
market stand is open from then
until about Thanksgiving.
“Martin’s Market in
Mastersonville” is located on
their 46 acre farm Their farm is
the first farm beyond the
Mastersonville Fire House on
Meadow Road It can also be
reached by going fiv e or six miles
north on route 72 from Manheim
and going west on Cider Press
Road about three miles to
Meadow Road Their market
stand is open m the summer from
about 9 a.m. till dark.
Martins have their vegetables
ready earlier than the rank and
file of home gardeners because
they start many of them in their
12 by 30 foot greenhouse in
March They started over 12000
vegetable and melon plants in
kykubes and a lot of the
vegetables in flats Mrs Martin
does the transplanting and Roy
keeps the fires burning in the
greenhouse She fills the
greenhouse, then sells the plants
she doesn’t need.
Martin’s Market always
features all vegetables that are in
season Right now they have
Zucchini, Buttercup, Acorn,
Patty Pan, Blue Hubbard, Golden
Hubbard and Yellow Summer
squash, sweet corn, Cobblers and
Kennebec potatoes, cucumbers,
large sweet, little stuffing and
Italian sweet peppers, onions,
yellow and green string beans,
eggplants, large and cherry
tomatoes, celery and lima beans.
Earlier they had asparagus,
The sign at Cider Press
Road and Meadow Road
points to Martin’s Market
which is nearby.
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Mrs. Charles
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strawberries, sugar peas, let
tuce, peas and spring onions.
Next week they will have can
taloupes and Cherry Red
watermelons. By the last of
August their seedless Top Yield
watermelons will be ready. Their
neck and Halloween pumpkins
will be ready around September 1
and Yellow Jersey sweet potatoes
will be ready in September. They
also have some cabbage,
cauliflower and broccoli. They
sell nearly all their vegetables on
the stand, wholesaling some
sweet corn, cantaloupes and
spring onions.
Mrs. Martin grows a lot of
annual flowers such as snap
dragons, asters, zinnias,
mangolds, petunias and makes
flower arrangements to sell. She
bought most of her flower plants
at a greenhouse because she
didn’t have room to raise them in
their greenhouse. She sells potted
coleus, oriental pepper plants,
hanging baskets and other large
containers of flowers that she
pots. She also handles flowers
planted m pieces of lava rock,
arranged by Oberholtzers
Greenhouse in Brickerville. In
the fall Martins have gourds and
Indian corn to sell All these not
only sell well but enhance the
beauty of their stand.
Martins sell fresh eggs which
they get from a neighbor. Mrs.
Martin makes mint iced tea and
home-made root beer which they
sell by the gallon or by the cup.
She also makes 14-day whole
pickles, pickle slices and strips
and home-made jams to sell
Sandra Bauman, who works for
Martins, makes home-made
baked products such as white and
brown bread, two kinds of sugar
cookies and whoopie pies. In the
fall they have pumpkin cake for
sale They sell baked goods every
day except Monday.
Martins attract the children by
selling kittens. Another line of
interest for the home or for gifts
is ceramics made by Mrs Harold
Witmer. They have a very large
variety of ceramic pieces to sell
Mrs Witmer also works part
time for Witmers.
Martins have four sons. Mrs
Martin says “I think boys need
work However, I think they need
free time too.” So the boys help
with the work and they have four
part time helpers Besides
Sandra Bauman and Mrs. Wit
mer, Rosie Metzler and Ruth
Weiler help part time. Mrs.
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Martin says “We all share in
picking, irrigation and
everything. We work as a family
and our help works as the family
and eats here.” They work
together when they make pickles
or tend the stand. Martins make a
lot of jelly, dress some chickens
and freeze them and freeze a lot
of vegetables for their own use.
The extra help and the boys all
help.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin have been
farming for 15 years. They were
on farm between Lititz and
Rothsville for 12 years and raised
broilers there. They started
selling cantaloupes that
November, just on a little coffee
table. Roy says “It’s a lot of
work. We started out small.”
They have been at this farm near
Mastersonville (formally Siegrist
Cantaloupe Farm) for three
years. Roy has a machine to lay
plastic for mulching cantaloupes,
watermelons, peppers, squash,
tomatoes and neck pumpkins.
Roy raises five houses of
broilers a year, 38,000 at a time,
on contract with Pennfield. Mrs.
Martin helps when the chicks are
real small. He farms six acres of
alfalfa which he feeds his sheep.
He has 60 head of Dorset sheep
and after he builds his flock to 75
head will sell some for meat
purposes A man from Paradise
shears his sheep and buys the
wool. Roy has 15 acres of pasture
land for his sheep.
Esther, the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Rohrer who
farmed between Strasburg and
Georgetown, grew up on the
farm. It was a general farm but
they also grew tomatoes and
sweet corn for canneries and she
(Left to right), Sandra Bauman, Daryl crisp 14-day pickles. Some of their jellies
and Dale Martin, Rosie Metzler and Mrs. are in the background.
Esther Martin pack jars with their delicious
Work and Pleasure For Family
helped. She said “I worked out a
lot and I enjoy it.” She attended
school at Paradise. Before
marriage she worked in sewing
factories at Bareville and at
Singing Needles, Leola. Roy also
grew up on a general farm and
they raised steers.
Martins sons are Dale, Daryl,
Duane and Delmar. They all help
with the vegetables, help do
canning and clean the chicken
fountains. They have been en
tering vagetables at the
Manheim fair.
Dale is 13 and will be m ninth
grade at Manheim Central Junior
High School this fall. He will be
enrolled in the Ag department.
He was in the art class at school
and made a hooked rug. He
thinks he wants to be a farmer
He takes an interest in the
vegetables. Dale was at a camp
and took the Black Forest Trail
hike in northern Pennsylvania
with a church group. He enjoys
taking colored snapshots and
puts them in an album.
Daryl, 11, will be in the seventh
grade at Manheim Junior High
School this fall. His mother says
he is a very good vegetable
picker. In school and at camps he
likes crafts, decoupage, leather
crafts and kite making. He also
likes to take snapshots and likes
carpentering.
Duane, 10, will be in fifth grade
at Mastersonville Elementary
School this fall. He enjoys nature.
He has made terrariums and
collects such things as punk,
pieces of old decayed wood and
driftwood.
Delmar is seven years old and
in second grade at Mastersonville
School He likes to drive the
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garden tractor to bring in
vegetables and cantaloupes from
the field.
Martins are members of Gantz
Mennonite Church. This is the
second year for them to entertain
two children from Steelton
through City Children’s
Visitation program of the
Mennonite Mission Board
Mrs. Martin was a room
mother last year at Master
sonville Elementary School. She
went on trips with the fourth
grade and kept children for
mothers during PTO meetings.
Mr and Mrs. Martin painted
and wall papered their double
living room last winter and the
boys removed the old paper from
the wall. Mrs. Martin also
refinished an antique chair.
Mrs Martin makes her own
dresses and made suits for the
boys when they were small She
says “I like flowers I enjoy
working with flowers a lot.”
Martins like to take short trips
with the family. Last fall they
went to Tennessee and they went
to Canada one year
Esther says “I enjoy cooking.”
Here are some recipes Mrs.
Martin uses, some of which she
hands out to customers at their
market stand People who buy
her canned pickles can vouch for
that recipe.
Baked Chicken Barbecue
1 broiler chicken cut up
1 stick margarine
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
Vz teaspoon paprika
1 cup crushed wheaties
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