McClain's Farm Produce in Indian Trail NC

McClain's Farm Produce in Indian Trail NC

Union County NC has been the fastest growing county in North Carolina for the last five or six years. You might think that all the new subdivisions, shopping centers, and roads would have pushed old-fashioned farm produce stands right out of the county or at least deep into its rural corners, but you will be surprised to learn that McClain's Farm Produce in Indian Trail NC is just five minutes from the intersection of I-485 and Idlewild Road. After exiting the highway and traveling past a gas station, a bank, a grocery store, a pharmacy and several restaurants, you'll arrive at the McClain's farm where they grow the summer produce we've come to love.

As we say here in the South, McClain's Farm Produce in Indian Trail NC "isn't much to look at". But the friendly family members are happy to welcome you to the produce stand and explain which of the vegetables were fresh picked that morning. On Saturday, my husband and I stopped to find fresh vegetables for the coming week's meals. We left with freshly picked green beans, a bag of freshly shelled lima beans, a bag of freshly shelled field peas (you may know them as "black-eyed" peas) and about 3 pounds of tomatoes that the McClain's call their common garden tomatoes. They grow heirloom tomatoes too, but were out of them. McClain's also carries sweet corn, peppers, potatoes, peaches and other staples of the southern summer garden.

So how good is the produce at McClain's Farm Produce in Indian Trail NC? It's wonderful! We've had the green beans with some of the tomatoes, the lima beans with corn and more of the tomatoes, and the tomatoes themselves on sandwiches. Each dish was delicious and a reminder that it pays to shop for fresh vegetables at the local produce stand rather than at the grocery store. And in Indian Trail NC, you don't have to drive very far to find the great produce at McClain's Farm Produce.

Copyright 2009. Carol Fox. *McClain's Farm Produce in Indian Trail NC*