Area Producers Needed For Market QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster Co.) Farmers looking for a new opportunity to retail their products this season are invited to attend an exploratory meeting about a new producer-only growers’ market in Quatryville. The meeting at 2 p.m. on Satur day, February 11, will be held in the Hoffman Community Build ing located at the Quarryville Fairgrounds. Selling fresh produce and other farm products directly to consum ers at a new market is a golden opportunity to either expand your existing sales or get started in retail marketing. New growers’ markets in some of our neighbor ing states have proven to be a wonderful bonanza to both new The One Spreader Rugged Enough For Lime, Precise Enough For Fertilizer. You know how tough it is to spread wet lime. And fertilizer is too expensive to waste. Our new 56i spreader does both jobs with ease. Plus, it has no equal when it comes to spreading “sloppy” material. 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January 21. 1995423 A person who said he never wins anything, Eason on Wednesday picked up a 6-quart origi nal old fashioned White Mountain ice cream freezer at the office of Lancaster Farming Eason’s entry was the winning one out of 2,000 entries made at the newspaper’s Farm Show booth in Harrisburg last week. Eason said he collects the White Mountain ice cream freezers, although his collection is small. He said that now that he won the hand-cranked freezer, he will probably retire an 8-quart model that he and Rose have been using for years. They said they love to make homemade ice cream. He said he owns a small 2-quart model that was never used and is still in the original box. He said he was tempted several times to make a small amount of ice cream in that one, but didn’t want to ruin its collector value. The couple grows a variety of vegetables on their owned seven-acres to sell at their roadside stand. At first, in addition to sharecropping grains on 250 acres, Eason raised sweet com and sold it wholesale to local groceries. When gas prices skyrocketed during the 19705, they started selling the com at a stand at the end of the farm lane, to eliminate the hauling costs. Soon, customers wanted tomatoes, and Rose and Bill said they began raising tomatoes, along with the com. While he still sharecrops grain using all no-till (he said because of the heavy concern for soil erosion and runoff that he and the landlord share), but the roadside stand has grown signific antly over the past 20 years. This past year, catering to customer demand and preferences, they marketed 42 different fruits and vegetables at the stand, which is open from April, with the start of the asparagus sea son, through the end of October with pumpkins, fall flowers and maize. The stand is located along Rt 333, about 2.5 miles from the heavily traveled Rt. 250, and the emphasis is marketing to local people. Eason said he frequently travels north to southern Pennsylvania and he is familiar wi,th produce coming from the area, because a larger market in Annapolis is supplied by Pennsylva nian producers. He and Rose said they go there to buy there eggs, and different foods, such as rotis serie chicken. The two were raised on farms. Rose’s father, Roland Blades was a truck farmer in Caroline County, known as a truck fanning area and also known for its cantaloupe. “His last year he had 90 acres all handpicked,” Rose said. “And there was 30 acres of cucumbers.” Bill’s mother Evelyn is better known as “Hon ey,” they said, and while Rose has a good vanilla ice cream recipe, Honey’s real fruit ice creams are some of their favorites. “We like hortiemade ice cream,” Rose said, adding that their grandchildren, who come to the farm every chance they get, also cojoy it
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