Design mockup. The business shown here is invented, and the phone number, address, hours and prices are placeholders.

Lowmeadow Stand

The barn is open May through October, and nothing on this page is in it year round.

A roadside stand is a calendar before it is a shop. Below is what actually ripens here and when, so you can decide whether today is the drive or whether it is worth waiting two weeks. Solid means the middle of the run. Hatched means it is starting or finishing, and there may be a table of it rather than a wall.

What is ripe, week by week

AsparagusLate April to early June
Sweet cherriesMid June, about three weeks
Black raspberriesLate June into July
BlackberriesJuly, into the first week of August
ApricotsEarly July, and a short run
PeachesMid July through August
Sweet cornMid July through August
TomatoesMid July until the first frost
PlumsAugust
Summer squashJuly through September
ApplesLate August through October
Winter squash and pumpkinsSeptember and October
Eggs from the layer flockEvery open day, but they go by ten

Inside the barn there is a second half of the business that no calendar covers

Some of it we grow and some of it we drive to Jamesport for. It is here whenever the doors are open, which is the reason people who came for tomatoes leave with four other things.

Eggs, dozen
$5
Raw wildflower honey, pint
$14
Amish bread, white or wheat
$7
Amish cinnamon rolls, half dozen
$12
Apple butter, pint
$9
Concrete birdbath, plain
$95
Concrete garden statuary, from
$40

Prices are illustrative for this mockup. Cash and card both work at the table.

Three photographs this page is waiting on

SHOT ONE. The barn from the road, shot from the shoulder in late afternoon so the red front is lit and the hand-painted sign is legible. Landscape, wide enough to show where a truck parks.
Shot list, to be photographed on site.
SHOT TWO. The produce table at about eight in the morning in August, full, before anyone has picked through it. Overhead, close, tomatoes and peaches in the frame.
Shot list, to be photographed on site.
SHOT THREE. Two hands setting a carton of eggs down on the table, plus the honey shelf behind it. Shows the second half of the barn without a staged arrangement.
Shot list, to be photographed on site.