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Message:: [QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 107914, member: 57"]You've described perfectly what it is like in "nice weather" (March into November) around here when traveling on secondary/country roads instead of those infernal interstate highways. No intersection or spot on the shoulder of the road is off-limits for at least one "watermelon truck" or one or more "fresh corn-on-the-cob trucks".  Of course other produce is also sold (cucumbers for home pickling) but . . . watermelons and fresh corn seem to be the prevalent offerings for ancient farm pickup trucks and small-time farmers to be selling by the side of the road. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> All you have to do to ensure it is "locally grown" is chat for a minute or so with the driver/proprietor about the weather -- the "real" local farmer will always know the amount of rain and temperatures four days or four months or four years ago.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> And nobody (except those living on the land for generations around here) has mastered the "local rural accent" enough to fool any other "local."<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]