Rounding up "farm stands on 6A near Yarmouth Port" during this, the Christmas Tree buying season.
Cape Abilities is also in the middle of the road as far as farm stands; the selection and prices on produce have generally been pretty good, and they've been expanding thanks to some donations / grants to support its primary mission (which is providing employment / vocational skill education for adults with developmental disabilities). There's an odd bit of economics going on here though as there's an essential subsidy for the farm operation that competes with Tobey down the road and the higher-end Cape Cod Organic and Miss Scarlett's. There's also nursery plants and with a new expansion of greenhouse it looks like it's going to really dominate, as well as provide mostly local-produce options.
There is occasional difficulty getting help here, more so in the off season, but it's not a major concern. In-season, they do have a large parking lot now, and the traffic can occasionally jam up.
There's a real heartstring issue for us here, as this is a great place for the clients it serves to provide employment for, but it's also competing with a Cape institution, the family-owned Tobey Farm. I like to think there's room enough for both, but from a pure consumerish end of things, for produce etc. Cape Abilities has had better quality and prices for a while now.
Christmas Tree round up: these were more expensive than the trees available elsewhere on 6A but there was a far bigger variety -- all imported trees, though, none locally grown (not sure if there are local Xmas tree farms left on the Cape, the soil is so tough), and in past years when we've gone here we had problems with needle dropping. They do a reasonable trim job though and because they have smaller trees, for the household that really doesn't need a full-sized tree, we keep coming here (this year after having checked out five places, we ended up here again for the final purchase. Go figure). read more