The Wade family
Three generations on the river
A fictional family for this demo. The ground they farm is the real kind of Casey County: bottoms, a gravel lane, and a ridge of hardwoods.
Call the stand
Lila Wade set a table at the end of the lane in 1978 and sold strawberries by the quart. She still walks the rows in May and will tell you, plain, if a berry is ready.
Her son Harlan farms the bottoms along the Green River and the field up on the ridge. Sweet corn, tomatoes, half-runner beans, and the pumpkin patch are his. He cuts the maze himself.
Nora, Harlan’s daughter, runs the stand. She counts the quarts, loads the mums, and takes the school calls. If you need a date for a church group, you are talking to Nora.
June berries are what we are known for. We would rather hand you a ripe quart than make a speech about them. People drive down from Liberty, up from Russell Springs, and sometimes from Danville when the patch is on.
