Tom Mater’s Farmish Stand is a real place at 6808 Highway 2301 in Bayou George, Florida.

It is also the front door to something considerably larger — a small town universe full of vegetable characters, County Seat drama, growing guides, recipes, and stories that keep going. Pull over for the boiled peanuts. Stay for the adventure.

“Boiled peanuts are hot. Willie is somewhere. Everything’s fine.”— The Homestead, most mornings

Tom Maters Is Coming Soon. Check Back Often For The Opening Date. Hours will be Tue. – Sat., 10:30 – 6 pm.

Good Food

Good Stories

Good Stuff

6808 Hwy 2301 in Bayou George
(on the corner of Coe Rd.)

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Boiled Peanuts ~ Farm Fresh Free Range Eggs ~ Local Honey
Homemade Baked Goods and whatever else Bonnie Best put up this week.

The Homestead had seen a lot of ideas over the years.

Some of them were good. Most of them involved Mortgage Lifter standing in a field at five in the morning, making a decision that nobody else would understand until three seasons later, when it turned out he was right. A few of them — the ones that arrived from the direction of the barn — involved Box Car Willie, and those tended to be the kind of ideas that required either a fire extinguisher or a good lawyer, depending on the day.

But this one, the Homestead had to admit, felt different. READ MORE . . .