We were doing 5 farmers' markets per week. We'd pick each morning, load the truck, unload at a market, sell for three hours, reload the truck, and unload at home. It s hard. And in Maine we were farming on leased land, with a 1-year lease. Leasing land is an excruciating process.
Leases are short-term, so farmers don t put money into the fields.
And if the landowner sees you making too much money, he jacks up the rent. We made as much in our first year in Millis as we made in Maine in 10 years. Spring Street Farm is right smack in the middle of suburbia. We sell wholesale to Roche Brothers supermarkets, and retail at the farmstand. We grow bedding plants, peas, strawberries, herbs, corn, tomatoes, and we sell Christmas trees.