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 of the place itself

A small red barn with white trimmed doors standing open, seen from the shoulder of a two lane road in late afternoon, gravel apron in front of it.
The barn from the road, and the gravel is where a truck parks.
Rows of wooden crates of tomatoes, peaches and sweet corn on tables inside an open sided barn, low sun coming through the far doorway.
The tables in August, before anybody has picked through them.
An open carton of brown eggs on a pale wooden table with a shelf of honey jars behind it in dim barn light.
Eggs and honey, which is the half of the barn no calendar covers.