Raina McManus always enjoyed her visits to the Wellsley Farmers' Market. She loved the chance to pick out fresh produce, soak up sunlight, and have pleasant conversations with the farmers who grew her fruits and vegetables.
Farmers To You provides the missing link between families and their food.
After taking the summer off, Wellesley Farmers' Market relaunched operations on Thursday in the parking lot at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills on Washington Street.
As the daylight faded on a damp Thursday afternoon, a trickle of cars began pulling into a parking lot at Babson College. Because it was the school break, the lot offered plenty of spots for David Silverstein's rental van and his customers. Silverstein himself stood under a small canopy at the edge of the lot, surrounded by crates, and chatting amiably with the regulars as they arrived to pick up their orders of milk, eggs, bread, cheese, fish, and more.
"They connect farmers in Vermont with families in the greater Boston area who want to be able to eat fresh food grown not too far away, but have trouble getting access to it at their local markets," says Candace Page, food writer for the Savorvore Section of the Burlington Free Press. She says owner Greg Georgaklis aggregates food from about 50 Vermont farms and sells it to families in the Boston area.
For some people, finding the shortest line at the grocery store is a small victory. For others, it's getting out of line altogether. And for those who want to get off the grocery-store grid entirely, Massachusetts is the place to do it.
