Barters & Bootstraps: PICK A SPOT & MAKE A STAND

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April/May 1992
By Ted Garrison 
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The roadside stand is one of the few enterprises left that can be started off with small capital and built up. It is seasonal, for the most part, but it offers the owner a chance to be him or herself and know a degree of freedom when a season ends that the clock puncher will not know until he reaches old age and retirement. The work is sometimes hard, but there are slack moments when you can chat with friendly customers and find out what's going on in the world, should you really care.

I have found people out for a drive in the country more relaxed and in a cheerful frame of mind. Even the harried businessman will be more receptive to a friendly greeting and find stopping at your place a welcome break in his hectic routine. The fruit-and-vegetable stand is a branch of farm life and nature with an air of a country store about it. Once you're in it successfully, you'll like it. For fun, profit, and a ready outlet for the things you grow while you live the natural way, a roadside stand is hard to top.

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