Bearcamp Garden opens farm stand

These days, everywhere you turn, you hear about farm stands, locally grown vegetables, and farmer’s markets. Why buy locally grown? The answer is simple: Locally grown veggies taste better! Knowing where your food comes from affords you the opportunity to have more background information about what you’re eating, and eating naturally-grown produce is just better for you.

Bearcamp Garden in West Ossipee opened a farm stand this year and is selling its own naturally-grown produce. The process started last fall when Cyle Foye and Casey Robinson jumped at the chance to put their love of farming and gardening to use. The field at Bearcamp was plowed and sowed with a cover crop of winter rye to help improve the contents of the soil while they, along with Betsy Spencer and Peter Coldwell, owners of Bearcamp Garden, made plans for what to plant and how to best take care of it. Bearcamp Garden tries to do something new every year, and after starting to sell their homegrown tomatoes in 2009, the owners were excited to add the other vegetables to Bearcamp’s repertoire.