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The Saturday morning tailgate j fanners’ market, located in towns ' - and cities all over Virginia, offer consumers the highest quality pro-! duce they can buy anywhere. : These vegetables, fruits, cut ; flowers, herbs, eggs and many other , products are harvested on the same * day or on the day before they are ; sold. “These farm products really J are fresh, said Extension Agent ; Tommy Williams. “The tailgate 1 farmers markets also offer small ! farmers an opportunity to earn reli; able income,” he added. “Anybody ; with a large vegetable garden and a ; pickup truck can participate.”
During the last 20 years, as these : farmers markets became estab■ lished, a few sellers began to show i up with a sign above their boxes and ! baskets of vegetables which said ; “Organically-Grown” or “Chemical; Free.” Today, these signs are seen ; in every tailgate farmer’s market be* cause many Virginia consumers are 1 anxious to buy local organically; grown produce that is free of pesti; cide residues. The market demand is ■ strong. * On Saturday, June 16 the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service ; will hold a field day at Virginia State ’ University’s Randolph Farm in * Chesterfield County for all landowners who would like to learn how to ' grow commercial crops without us1 ing synthetic chemicals.
Participants can expect to learn ; basic, practical garden management 'methods from experienced organic ; growers. Several members of the * Virginia Association of Biological «Farmers have volunteered to be on
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