Anne Rucker

Have you always run your current business? 

No.  I was a practicing attorney.

 What’s your favorite or least favorite vegetable?

Favorite:  arugula

Least favorite:   sweet potato

What’s your favorite thing to get from other vendors at the market?

Three-way tie between goat cheese from Love Tree Farms, any hot bowl from Gai Gai Thai and heirloom tomatoes from Peter and Carmen.

 What question do people not ask you at the market that you wish they did?

What are your favorite US doughnut shops?  (I could talk about doughnuts shops all day.)

Do you have a favorite market memory?

Hiding under my tent during the crazy sudden downpour at my first-ever Kingfield market.

What’s the best advice you’ve gotten about farming / your business?

Trust your gut.

If you could have any superpower, what would it be, and why?

To be eternally optimistic because I tend to doubt myself.

What do you do when you’re not doing work for your business?

Eat and hang out with my husband, Dave, and my daughter, Esther.