My children have an arrangement with an area farmer. After the weekly farmers market, he supplies them with surplus produce, which they sell at a roadside stand in front of our house. They split the proceeds 50/50, with the farmer getting half, and the boys dividing the other.
What’s in it for me, you ask?
One of the things that’s nice about having a farmstand at the end of your driveway is that you will never run out of onions. And then there is the slippage—produce that we have to pull if it gets a little soft, even though it’s totally edible. Each night, for example, I’ll go through the unsold tomatoes and cull the ones that are too soft. I’ve been using these extra-ripe balls of flavor in a certain pasta dish that comes together amazingly quickly, especially given how from-scratch it is….