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Carrboro's
By LANE MITCHELL
Special to the STH
As the Saturday morning sun rises
over the twin lean-tos off Roberson
Street in Carrboro, vans and sta
tions wagons stuffed with fresh
produce, bedding plants, vegetable
seedlings and handmade craft items
unfold into an abundant farmer's
market.
And every Saturday morning year
round, people travel for miles to the
Carrboro Market for a chance to
buy and sell freshly-picked lettuce
or hand-pampered flora.
"The people in Chapel Hill really
love the farmer's market," said Pat
Sterling, a homemaker and private
businesswoman from Hillsborough
who peddles homemade breads as
well as rasberry and cranberry
vinegars at the market. "They'd
rather buy things from us than at
the store."
Sterling is one of about 30 local
producers who sell regularly at the
market, merely a calfs row south
of Carr Mill Mall south of Main
Street. Here, fruits and vegetables
UCF member says 'witnessing' a joy
By NANCY HARRINGTON
Staff Writer
One of the primary goals for the
United Christian Fellowship is to
lead people to Christ and to help
them establish themselves in their
faith, according to fellowship
member Jerome Hughes, who lead
witnessing teams in Chapel Hill
and Carrboro.
UCF is a dynamic church com
mitted to sharing the gospel with
such simplicity, sincerity and
authority that the uncompromised
word of God resounds throughout
this campus, the community and
the world, Hughes said.
Hughes, a senior English major
at UNC, and a Morehead Scholar,
said his greatest motivation for
witnessing, telling others about the
power of God, is his love for God.
"He loved me enough to lay
down his life for me and I'm more
than willing to lay down my life
for other people," he said.
"We (the UCF Church) have a
promise from God that if we go
and teach people about the things
that Christ has commanded us,
that people will be saved ," he said,
quoting, Matthew 28:19-20.
The UCF, a non-denominational
ministry under the pas
torship of Rev. Michael E. Evans,
is conducting home cell group,
"bible studies," in the Chapel Hill
and Carrboro area and invite
people in the community to
attend. These sites are located at
the homes of people who belong
to the UCF or at homes of people
who are interested in participating.
Hughes said the witnessing
teams have been successful
because most people are willing to
listen. He believes that early
morning prayer makes it easier for
people o receive them.
"WeVe got a group of people
market offers open
are fresh, usually picked the same
morning, and the air smacks of dill,
marjoram, rosemary and
peppermint.
And it is here that David Denson,
a private farmer from Siler City, can
sell 500 pounds of his vine-ripened
tomatoes by 9 a.m.
"I like selling here," Denson said
as customers line up four or five deep
behind a spring-scale attached to the
back of a Volkswagon van. I make
contact with the people who are
going to eat the tomatoes, and they
really appreciate it."
From mid-April to late June,
Denson and his partner, Jim LeT
endre, grow and harvest the quarter
pound red jewels out of Denson's
10,000-square-foot greenhouse
solely to sell at the market. They
use only the finest seeds, Denson
says Caruso and Perfecto seeds
from Europe that sell for $300 an
ounce.
The pride Denson puts into his
tomatoes is not uncommon at the
Carrboro Market, according to
who really love the Lord and truly
desire to be all that Christ said we
are," Hughes said.
The most common response the
witnessing team receives from
people is that they are not ready
to be "saved," Hughes said. How
ever, he always reminds them that
"today is the day of salvation."
"It's not preparing yourself, it's
being willing to change," he said.
"It's just up to . . . them to be
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Louise Fredericksen, who has been
selling her bedding plants and
seedlings at the market for eight
years.
"You really have to do the work,"
she said. "And you really have to
grow and produce what you sell."
The Agricultural Extension Ser
vice, which organized a circuit of
farmer's markets statewide under
the Agricultural Marketing Projects
in 1978, assures that everything sold
here is hand-produced by the seller.
Like all markets on the circuit,
Carrboro's is run by the farmers who
establish a board of directors to
assure that the sellers are strictly
local and that they truely do produce
everything they sell.
"When people buy and resell, they
really don't care about the quality
of the produce," Fredericksen said.
"But when people sell what they
grow, it really helps the quality of
what we all sell."
Sara Lewallen, whose specialty is
the goat cheese she makes after
milking five doe goats she keeps at
willing to change."
Hughes said that because of his
beliefs, a lot of people don't feel
comfortable around him and often
try to avoid him.
"I'd rather make people feel
uncomfortable for a season, allow
them to recognize their condition
and then give their lives to Christ,
than for them to be seduced into
believing that everything's all
right," he said.
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quality comes in all ranges from fair
to very good.
"But it's not always the . . .
(farmer's) fault," she said. "There's
a big variety of stuff here, and if
you know what you're looking for
and who to ask, you can generally
find a good quality bargain."
And good quality bargains are
plenty at the market: hydroponic
lettuce for 70 cents a head, a dozen
newly laid eggs for a dollar, a pint
of blackberry jam for $3.50, a golden
loaf of challah bread for $3. There
are strawberries galore, brownies,
pickles and honey, as well .as a
variety of inedible items such as
cedar chests, spice cabinets, cutting
boards and pottery.
"The market is usually pretty
steady, but lately it has grown," said
Fredericksen, who has hauled bed
ding flowers and vegetable shoots
from Hill Top Farms in Chatham
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for eight years.
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Fredericksen's stand is nestled
between two other flower and
vegetable stands. So snug the three
are, that you would think the
competition might get a little heated.
But Fredericksen is reassuring.
"It's just like any other business,"
she says, clipboard in hand, ready
to tally up the next sale. "You have
to deal with the competition. Farm
ing is such a hard job to begin with,
everyone seems to pull for everyone
else."
Carrboro's market is a rare breed
in the commercial world. Here
sellers aren't reluctant to swap
secrets with fellow sellers, and the
relationship between the peddler
and the browser becomes
unabashedly social.
And the jokes are a dime a dozen.
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