Jeanie, a long-time blog reader and a very modern farmer and baker, e-mailed me this photo of a bread rack that she offered to buy for me and the Millers and ship to Cambridge.

She sells her produce and bread at an Illinois Farmer’s Market and she uses this kind of tiered wrack to display her bread.

She said her sales jumped up when people could see the bread clearly. I don’t know if this is her bread or not, I don’t think so, but I get her point. She loved the nine-basket stand I put up in the shed last night.

She says she’s going to try to get her husband to build one.

I thanked her – we are good online pals – but I declined her offer to pay for it. My vegetable rack was a gift to friends, but paying their own way is important to this family, and I suspect a gift like that from a stranger might make them uneasy.

They can buy or build what they need.

I like the bread rack idea very much, it would balance the vegetable basket wrack, and the Amish bread loaves often get overshadowed by the more colorful fruit and vegetable baskets of the summer.

The Amish welcome my ideas about presenting their food, and they trust me to be thoughtful and careful about it.

These bread displays are quite inexpensive – Jeanie says I could buy one for a little more than $30. But my inner voices say to go slow and let them digest their vegetable rack.

A bread rack is something Moise could build in a half hour.

I can show them this image down the road and see how they respond.

The Amish are teaching me to go slow and be thoughtful. Is this display really needed?

Their crops are exploding all over their farm, I imagine that will be their focus for a while.