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Farmer’s Market in Akron
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“Every farmer had their own little stall that they rented every year and Bender's had one. If we got a surplus of tomatoes or whatever vegetable, we would truck it on in there. You get there about two-thirty, three o'clock in the morning and you go in and sit. All these men. . . I remember kinda being a scared little girl when I was first offered to go to farmer's market. We sat at the big counter and ate breakfast with all these guys and, you know, they're all doing their farm talk and by four o'clock, five o'clock then the groceries in the area came in to buy directly from the farmers. So that was a part of the truck farming business.”
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2011 Oral History Project: Lee Darst, who worked with her father on the Bender Farm in Northampton from the 1950s through the 1970s, shares her memories about the farmers' market in Akron.
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Lee Darst
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