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Old July 16, 2017   #415
Cole_Robbie
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Thank you.

I haven't been back to that market this year, Worth, where the angry gentleman yelled at me that my prices were too low. My prices this year are actually a little higher than the going market rate, but the tomatoes still sell.

Most of the vendors selling tomatoes now have a cherry color mix of some sort. I was the first one doing that. The vendors next to me now have Fred Hempel's Artisan cherries, at my suggestion from last year. They are very nice people, and I'm not upset at all about being copied. It's flattering. I change my varieties every year, anyway, so we'll never have exactly the same thing.

Speaking of getting yelled at, one very angry woman walked by on Saturday, looked at my table, and admonished me quite loudly, "God did not intend for tomatoes to be that color!!!" I would have been happy to engage in a theological debate over the matter, but she turned and walked away quickly, before I could respond.
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