Russell’s Garden Center in Wayland, Massachusetts
Saturday, September 29th, 2007A person approached me at the Framingham Farmers market about selling kettle corn at the Russell’s Garden Center Farmers Market in Wayland, Massachusetts. They were all torqued up about our product and thought it would be a really good idea to pop there on Wednesdays. (I guess it would be easier if they didn’t have to schlep all the way over to Framingham if they wanted to snarf kettle corn in Wayland) 
I contacted Peg, the event coordinator at Russell’s and was able to get in on the last day of the season. I wanted to see how it would feel and what the layout was like. It ended up a grey, drizzly day and I wasn’t expecting too much of an outcome.
Whole bunch of cool people there, they weren’t selling the same ol’ veggies. I normally give out plenty of freeby bags to the poor people who end up parked next to me. There’s a descent amount of smoke and freshly popped kettle corn “stench” blowing around the place, so I like to placate everyone with a bag. I noticed a “kettle corn cloud” was drifting onto Route 20. Cars would drive through this, get a good whiff of the “stench”, stop, turn around and come back just to get a bag of kettle corn. Normally you’ve got to get the fresh stuff into their mouths before you can make a sale. (It’s what I call my “hard sell” tactic.)
It was a pretty descent day…seeing that no one knew I was there and with the weather threatening to turn it into a crappy day. Did more than the first day at Springfield or Framingham. Lemme see..do I want to sit in an office next year on Wednesdays or come here? Hmmmmm….
