This is the twenth day of my research assistant role of the Youth Gardening Project. Today's location was at the Macon County Farmers Market. Today was the BIG day that the children of the summer Youth Garden Project had an opportunity to use their business and marketing skills to sell their finished product: tomato plants. It was a tomato plant sell from 8:00 AM until 2:00 PM.
There was one customer who stood out from all the other customers, her name is Mrs. Deloris Coleman. Mrs. Coleman was a prinicple at Tuskegee Institute Middle School and has since retired from the Macon County School System. Mrs. Coleman doesn't stay far from the market and made a deal to buy three tomato plants from the children of the Youth Gardening Project if we would come to her home and plant them for her. Upon arrival at her home, her husband was gone and she couldn't locate her postdigger. Therefore, she asked us to come back another day.
On the other hand, the sales for today was outstanding when compared to standard turn-out of people at the market previous days maybe even months and years earlier.
The market manager, Mr. Pace made a very uplifting comment to our efforts to get more individuals to come to the market. He stated, "I haven't seen this many people at the market in a long time since I've been manager."
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