Yep. Happens in Michigan, just 15 minutes outside of a city with 200k people.

And up in the thumb, too.

Edit: But not in Ann Arbor, the purportedly safest city in the state... Go figure.

Right here in suburban San Jose too. Phil Cosentino (one of the Cosentino brothers of local grocery fame) and his family run J&P Farms on Carter Avenue near 85 and Camden. They sell organic fruit from their backyard orchard.

Sometimes you will run into one of them at the produce stand in front of their house, but usually when I've been there it's unattended. The baskets of fruit have prices on them and there's a slot in the counter to put your money in.

http://www.jandpfarms.com/

This is every rural county in the US, more or less.

Seriously, it seems like 90% of the HN crowd has was born in SV. You don't even have to go very far inland, from either coast.

I think your perception of HN membership is way off. I'd frankly be surprised if 50% of HN members live in the SF/SV area. Not sure how either of us can be proven correct, however, at least not without mod assistance. Perhaps user IPs?

common in outer fringes of Melbourne, 50 to 70km. This ones in Kinglike (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/30900586330) another, down the mountain in Strathewen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/28426890045)

Relatively common in rural Australia. Have also seen it here in China, in Laos and in Thailand.