The advantage of fresh and local

How one restaurateur and one farm stand crew view the challenges of summer

It’s well over 90 degrees, knee-deep in a June afternoon east of the sprawl on State Road 80 in Lee County, where a bustling Rooster’s Produce farm market almost appears out of place among nearby fields and cow pastures.

Most Floridians are living in air conditioning on a day like this. But not at Rooster’s, now open for the first summer ever, like some northern country standard, somehow out of place but happy to be there.

This can’t be real, can it?…

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