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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
(Editor's note: This'is the third installment in a series on marketing farm produce in Rappahannock Con nty.)
Silas Martin in Amissville has already harvested various varieties of beans, potatoes, and entire crops of peas and onions.
A member of the Farmers’ Market Association, Mr. Martin loads his truck four times a week with produce and delivers it to regular customers in Fauquier, Front Royal, Arlington and Fairfax.
“Sixteen years ago, seven of us got together with the idea of a farmers’ market,” he explained walking through rows of corn peeping through the ground.
“Now, we have 2H members," he said, serving over 18,000 customers each week.
Mr. Martin, a tall, lean man. browned from hours in the hot sun and roughened from field labor, was bom and raised in Rappahannock County, with his present home just yards from his family place.
“We always farmed.’’ he said, adding in those days it was much harder to work with a horse-drawn plow.
Farming however, was not his first calling. Mr. Martin worked w'ith Monticello Dairy in Culpeper
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