Megan Shaub created a 4-H
By JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Reporter
SHREWSBURY, Pa. - “It
started six years ago with a
five-step stand, a chair, and
a little girl sitting by the side
of the road.”
And thus begins one of
y or k County’s most suc
cessful 4-H 'stories. The
author is Megan Shaub, age
17, and the daughter of Mr.
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and Mrs. Robert Sbaub, 350
West Railroad Avenue,
Shrewsbury. She composed
the opening quote as the
introduction to her own 4-H
story.
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has changed considerably.
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The five-step selling stand
has matured as well. It
developed when a brooder
house was remodeled and
sales were moved into its
more spacious capacity.
Increasing business
demanded cooling and
storage, which led to the
purchase of a eight-door
refrigeration unit. Finely,
the mushrooming business
overflowed into another
expansion, the open air sales
area.
This youthful story of
success actually began more
than six years ago, when
Robert Shaub planted
canning factory string beans
in a field near the family
home. As an enterprizmg
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seven-year-old, Megan
picked some of those beans
and began selling them
along the road in front of her
house.
“I sold them for 25 cents a
pound 10 years ago - and I
still charge the same amount
per pound,” Megan notes,
commenting on the cost
price squeeze faced by
agricultural producers.
Business branched out the
following year, when the
family decided to include a
one-acre patch of sweet com
for the string bean
customers. But all the plants
in the plot matured at the
same time, sending the
entire family peddling ears
of corn throughout the
streets of nearby towns. For
the third year sales, sweet
com was spaced for in
termittent harvests.
By this time, regular
buyers at the growing
business began requesting
more variety. Megan’s in
volvement in 4-H gardening
grew, the acreage devoted to
the produce stand grew, and
the Shaub’s support of the
project as a family endeavor
grew. “The Farmer’s
Daughter” fresh produce
stand was off and running.
“Business each year has
about doubled,” according to
Megan’s records. Her 4-H
garden now covers about a
full acre. From the family’s
350 acres of land, 25 have
been set aside to raise
continuous supplies for the
always-busy stand.
“Sweet com is still our
best seller,” emphasizes
Megan, as she cuts and
arranges it for her
customers. “Most people
will eat the yellow varieties
until the white is ready, and
then switch. It averages out
to about a 50-50 demand.”
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residents through Novem
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requiring someone there a
full 11 hours daily.
“I’m here every day,
except when I go away on 4-
H trips,” Megan relates.
“They’re my vacations.”
Through the sales
business, this pretty dark
haired young lady has
become somewhat of an
expert on fresh fruits and
vegetables. She grows and
sells cantaloupes, peppers,
squash, tomatoes, com, lima
and string beans, cucum
bers, eggplant, cabbage, and
red beets for Summer
customers.
“About Labor Day, people
are looking ahead to Fall,
and sort of losing interest in
garden vegetables,” she
notes. “But then, in a month
they begin coming back and
asking for fresh sweet com
again.”
And, although fresh com is
gone by then, something else
is ready to take its place.
Gourds, Indian com, and
pumpkins are great sellers
the Shuab’s have found.
Chilly Fall evenings bring
Halloween, Thanksgiving,
and pumpkin pie planners
flocking to Megan’s cash
register.
But even the best planned
garden cannot always meet
buyer demands, especially
when the weather doesn’t
cooperate, as it didn’t this
Summer. So, some weeks
find Megan and her father
making a trip during the
early hours of a morning to
the Baltimore Wholesale
Produce Market, where they
can purchase needed ad
ditions to available
homegrown offerings.
Regular purchases include
peaches, potatoes, and
onions. Baskets of other
commodities are bought as
gaps develop in the har
vesting of the Shaub’s
acreage.
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