I take a back country road to get Ryan to school and there is a house on the road that sells produce in their front yard. I finally stopped yesterday and was so glad I did.

They have these tiny icebox watermelons and tomatoes just sitting there on some tables under a canopy. There is a scale to weigh the tomatoes and an old mail box that you just put your money in. Just sitting there right off the road in their yard. The sign says it's the honor system - you leave the money for what you take. He had prices posted on a piece of paper. I guess I looked confused because a man came out of the house and asked if I needed help. I didn't have change of course! He made change for me and told me that if the watermelon wasn't good, to just stop back by and he'd give me another one. I weighed the tomatoes and he said, put in a few more and I won't charge you cause one of them could have a bad spot or something and I want you to get your money's worth. The watermelon was $3 and it was so yummy. The tomatoes were $1 a lb. and they were perfect on my salad last night. He grows the produce in his back yard.

I was thrilled with his kindness and honesty. I think it's great that he can trust people like that. I'll be stopping often.

How nice! These days I didn't think anyone would do anything involving money on an honor system. It's great to know that some people out there can still trust others!

You'd never find that here...I love that.

My mom does that with her pumpkins and squash. She sets them on a table/ground by the road- with a butter tub for the money.

As far as we know, no one ever has taken money from the tub- and everyone pays for their stuff. Mom says they generally pay more than they need to- like if they don't have change, they won't get change from the tub, they just leave the extra.

That is so cool! We have a place that sells corn from their garden. It's a U-pick set up and they also use the honor system.

I would have never believed anything like that was still around, but we visited an organic farm in a neighboring county a few weeks ago and they work on the honor system! The have signs up as to the price of everything and you take whatever you want to purchase and leave the money in a little cash box. It just blew me away.

We had one of those when we were living in Lumberton, NC. It was right by our drive way. My mom and stepdad got some stuff the time the came to visit and I would buy muscadine grapes when they were in season as well as a tomato every now and then.

Man that is really neat. I haven't seen anything like that around here, but I'm sure if I drove around I might find something. I sure would love a watermelon right now. :D

I haven't seen that for a while. Glad you could have that experience. It's a great feeling. Tried doing that with Halloween candy 2 years ago. "Please take two" Still trying to figure out why I thought that would work. LOL!

Some people still do that where I live.:) Glad you found such a wonderful place.
I haven't been in a couple of years but a place I used to go didn't have any gulp~Swiss chard and he came out & asked what else I might be looking for & then went out to his garden picked me some & hosed it off & bagged it for me.:) Just such wonderful people to chat with too.:)

We have bought our pumpkins that way a few times.....