The Stand is Open: Our Farm Stand on Lounsbury Road is open for the summer.  We open the season with greens, salad turnips, and our other certified organic vegetables, picked fresh every morning in our fields.  Roadside farm stands are few and far between, as are working farms, I suppose.  I have been thinking a lot about that these days.  The endless proliferation of farmers markets has my mind reeling.  Just about every CSA program (including ours) is running a waiting list.  In this whirlwind, we sometimes forget to highlight how critical the good ol' roadside stand is to the survival of the small farm.  The roadside stand is a direct line to the farm: no middle man, no market master, no nothing. It is nice to know how to make an honest buck, or spend one for that matter: purchasing organic food from the farmer whose hands sow and harvest it at the edge of the land he or she is cultivating: that is too good of a feeling to be so rare.