Now that spring has sprung, customers again will be eagerly flocking to Bauman’s Farm Market as they have for decades.
The Five Mile Line Road market opened for the season on April 24. Bauman family members have farmed the land since 1908 and have run first a stand, and then the market, since 1957.
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Jim Bauman owns the place now, as his grandparents and parents did before him. He’s no stranger to hard work.
“If you’re the owner of a farm, you’d better be working at least 100 hours a week for at least eight months of the year,” he said. “The work before we open (for the season) is pretty intense. We sell almost everything we grow. We start back in early February and go until December. January is our only ‘off-season,’ and not much of it.
“If farming was easy, everyone would do it.”
What customers will find, as always, includes a variety of fresh produce, annuals and perennials grown in the Bauman greenhouses, baked goods and cheeses and other foods.
Available plants listed on the company website — it’s a long list — range from ageratum to zinnia. As noted (in boldface), quantities are limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Summertime brings the harvest of fruits and vegetables and the “you-pick-it” season. Fall is busy with Halloween activities and the Scary Pumpkin Room. Winter includes Christmas tree-time, when Bauman’s has pre-cut and cut-your-own offerings.
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Right after Christmas, Bauman’s closes for a few months, but the work continues.
The family operation started with Jim Bauman’s grandparents, Joseph and Emma Bauman. “He grew up on a farm in Irondequoit near Irondequoit Bay, at the end of Norton Street,” Jim Bauman said. “He bought (this land) in 1908 at auction. He bought it on the steps of the (county) courthouse.”
Joseph and Emma ran the property strictly as a dairy farm until he died in the early 1950s. Jim Bauman’s parents, Jim and Barbara, took over the operation in 1951, continued the dairy farm until the late 1950s and eventually began growing crops like tomatoes and beans. They added a small farm stand in 1957.
When his father died in 1974, Jim Bauman (the current owner) took over. He worked for his mother until 1983, the year that he and his wife, also named Barbara, bought the place.
The Bauman land, now 104 acres, straddles the Penfield and Webster lines. “My dad bought a chunk that was land-locked back in ’53,” Jim Bauman said. “I bought another 10 acres within the last 20 years.”
During the same timeframe, Bauman also began adding greenhouses and now has 22 of them.
“If we didn’t change, we’d be out of business,” he said. “We’ve switched over to plants, but we do a lot of produce still — sweet corn and squash, peas and rhubarb, cucumbers and peppers” and more.
Jim Bauman’s brother, Mark, helps out with the Christmas tree sales. Jim and Barbara’s five children, ranging in age from 17 to 29, help out occasionally.
As this year’s harsh winter finally appears to have given way to spring, Bauman’s Farm Market again is ready for business. So, too, are the regular shoppers.
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“We have a very loyal customer base,” Jim Bauman said. “The way we usually lose customers is when they die.”
Morrell is a Rochester-based freelance writer.
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Bauman’s Farm Market is at 1340 Five Mile Line Road. Call (585) 671-2820 or go to www.baumansfarmmarket.com, for more information.
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