hi my name is diane she gained i live in underhill with my wife and our three children we lived there for about twelve years and when we first moved to underhill we planted a garden just as we have have everywhere else we've lived and over the years we started producing more and more produce specially put tomatoes than we needed and so we started trying to sell them to stores and markets and restaurants and last  year i got together with a friend of mine in underhill john quire and the two of us were researching how we might sell some of our produce in the off season and we came across a program that was developed by a group of folks over in charlotte called your farm stand what your farm stand is it's an online market that allows anyone in your town or community to sell produce or crafts or even market their own services in your local area and so john coyer and i tried this program out we bought a few things from each other it seemed like it worked pretty well and so over the last few months we've been signing up more vendors and looking for more customers and we currently have more than twenty vendors almost one hundred customers and this market seems to be working pretty well and it's again it's open to the public anyone that wants to sell anything that they have made themselves or grown themselves or from some animal that they raise themselves or something they produce themselves as long as it's something you've made you can sell used items you can't resell other items but it's a perfect opportunity for small producers to try to sell something locally it's a great opportunity for larger producers to sell things to the community and in a very simple fashion and everyone can do this once a week the market week goes from thursday to thursday everyone mitt places their orders up until wednesday at midnight and then on thursday they go to one of our pickup points and pick up their orders are your farm stand market is is currently called the underhill in jericho market because most of our customers and most of our vendors are from that area but actually we have vendors from all around the area pretty much the area that's covered by the chimneys supervisor union the five towns school district towns we have vendors from richmond and huntington and we're also talking to vendors from cambridge  fairfield and essex and westford and now i want to show you a little bit about how this program works from the customer standpoint the first thing you would do is go to your browser and type in your farm stand those are all three words run together for google and just about every search engine of top of the list it'll find your farmstand dot com and there's about fifteen or twenty different your farmstand sites that use this software in vermont before you make a purchase she would have to sign up once you signed up you would establish your account then you put money into your account once you do that you're able to go into the screen and look at what's for sale so if you want to see the underhill and the jericho and the chin and east market you just scroll down the list for choosing your local market click on that and then it'll change the screen to show you everything that's available currently in underhill in jericho online market on the left side is an index of everything it's available so if you're looking specifically for potatoes you can move over to potatoes and click on that or if you want to scroll down the entire list and all the descriptions and read information about the vendors and the producers there's a scroll bar on the right and you can scroll through all that detailed information a lot of the vendors have photos of their products of their produce and there's also descriptions there's descriptions of the vendors and the farmers and their operations there's even ways to get ahold of them via phone or e mail address if you have some questions let's say that i want to buy some tomatoes right now we have fresh frozen organically grown tomatoes that were just frozen last fall right off the out of the field and they're available by the bag what you would do is you select the bag size a one pound bag and you go down to the bottom of the screen you have to scroll all the way to the bottom and click on place order once you click on place order it's in the system and that amount of money the dollars sixty five cents will be taken from your account and will be given to the vendor and on thursday afternoon it will be available for your pickup i can always go back and add more things to go back to what's for sale and i continue to place our add to my order throughout the week and everything will all get process together on wednesday night when all orders are process the underhill in jericho online market is a nonprofit co op it's run by all the vendors and there's no percentage that's taken for the operation or for the profit of the market so it's a nonprofit market and anyone can sell so if anyone wants to sell one homemade chair or one bag of potatoes or some tomatoes you can get on the market and list one item or you can list many items for many months right now we have a very long list of products available recurrently have cheese products eggs ice cream we have  carrots onions peppers tomatoes potatoes we have meat in the meat category we have beef lamb pork rabbit we have jellies and jams we have preserves we have maple cr maple syrup products and candy we have bees wax and lotions and creams and sobs and and sprays we have homemade scarves and soaps we have yarns and fiber and we have some fine artists on our market who have pictures of the artwork that they've created original paintings they're also for sale and we have a tog refers with photographs for sale and we also have a service category we have classes we have  some consult the businesses some delivery businesses there's all kinds of things just about everybody in the community probably has some product or some service or some skill that they might want to offer either one time or on a continuing basis and  this online local co op market would be happy to host you so i hope that i've given you enough information so you have a little bit of understanding about the online market and i'm sure you'll probably have more questions you can reach us through our e mail address you can call us on the telephone and we'd be happy to help customers get signed up answer any questions about their cast to be happy to help vendors put their products online and we're just really enthused about this open market that's available in the community on a nonprofit basis and anyone can sell and anyone can buy as long as it's local homemade type materials or services