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The Blue Ridge
The Mother of All Farm Stands If not for the happy ending, Felicia Shelor could have been a character in the kind of hardscrabble folk song that defines her region. In 1982 she was nineteen, divorced and trying to get off welfare by working days as a farmhand in the hills of southwestern Virginia. When the owner of a nearby produce stand gave her a section of the parking lot to peddle her own potatoes and cabbage, her business soon outgrew the landlord's. Now, twenty-four years later, her Poor Farmer's Market is a hillbilly bazaar of sourwood honey, moonshine jelly, fresh apple butter and preserves, hoop cheese, ham hocks, fat slabs of salty bacon, and warm loaves of pumpkin bread made by the mountain women who work there.
Poor Farmer's Market: (540)952-2670. - B.M.
* Used with permission from Esquire Magazine .
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