DAPHNE, Ala. (WKRG) — A familiar face, “Well, do you ever really retire?”  Baldwin County farmer Greg Burris is coming out of retirement and getting back into the farmers market business.  “I can tell you we won’t be selling potato chips. It won’t be a convenience store. We’re going to take it back to being a true farm market.”

He sold the name and leased the Burris Farm Market in 2006.  “The lease was only for 15 years and my son wanted to give it a try and we’re going to let him give it a try.”

Current owner Rick Stewart announced this week he would close the Loxley landmark August 12.

“We’re just sorry to see it go to what it’s gone too. We’re not happy with that but there’s nothing we can do about it. We’ll just have to get in there and clean it up.”  When that will happen, he doesn’t know yet.  “I want the customers to know it’s not going to happen overnight. It’s going to be a lot of hard work.”

That hard work has already begun. Strawberry planting season is coming up and there are all those peach trees to take care of, “I used to say I wasn’t going to die on a tractor but I guess maybe I might.”

The market will have to have a new name.  As to what it will be, he says he has a couple of ideas but they are still trying to decide.