Most of what's sold there is grown on the 50 acres behind the stand. But Brad Bland, whose family started the stand and who runs it now, said he's going to have to move the whole thing back 30 feet to make way for the road widening. Even the first row of orange trees, replanted after the freezes of the '80s, will be moved back. Tomatoes and beans aren't ready yet. He'll stay open until June, when the last of the sweet corn ends, then reopen again Thanksgiving week.
Business is good as cars fill the road, heading east and west.
But Hastings is still about the same, he said.