Angelo Ferraro has been selling vegetables on weekend mornings from his stand on Bedford Street across from Oak Grove Avenue for the past forty years. Some of the produce he grows in the small garden plot next to the barn behind his house, the rest he picks up from a farmer in Somerset. Everyone swears that he sells the sweetest corn and the best tomatoes, all displayed on a pushcart that he purchased nearly 20 years ago from a man in Chelsea. He applied a fresh coat of paint but was careful not to cover the original peddler's license from the Boston Health & Hospital Department. In addition to Angelo's stand, fresh vegetables can also be purchased from the Kennedy Park Farmer's Market and the Ruggles Park Farmers Markets. The Kennedy Park Farmers Market is open on Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., from May to November, and the Ruggles Park Farmers Market is open on Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., from June to November.
 

(Top row, left and center) Angelo mans his stand in his driveway on Bedford Street across from Oak Grove Avenue. (Top row, right) George Alves of Bay Street stops by to buy some sweet corn and to chat. (Middle row, left) Angelo sells beefsteak tomatoes for $2 a pound and corn for $4 a dozen. (Bottom row) Angelo proudly shows off his garden where he grows his own tomatoes, eggplant, and cabbage.