Carey, Carey, how does your garden grow?
Submitted by Dick Wanner on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 3:49pm.
With 7,000 tobacco plants, all in a row. Don Carey, a smoker and a building contractor who lives near Akron, Ohio, has taken offense at the skyrocketing tax levy on his favorite herb.
So, man of action that he is, he's grow his own, roll his own and smoke his own tax-free cigars and cigarettes. And it's legal. He checked.
Carey bought seeds, started them, and planted 7,000 seedlings of 40 different varieties on three-quarters of an acre near his home. The plants are doing well - other than the 50 or so that were taken out by slugs - and Carey could end up with a 2,000 pound harvest. He needs about 17 pounds of tobacco a year to support his habit.
No word on his plans for the 1,983 extra pounds.
Carey's crop was the subject of a story in Saturday's edition of the Akron Beacon-Journal. You can read it here http://www.ohio.com/news/49365072.html
Financial analyst by day, sheep shearer by night. Jason Seibert spends his official working hours thinking about money, and his unofficial working hours thinking about sheep. The 33-year-old from Lebanon, Pa., has been relieving sheep of their winter coats for 20 years, continuing a family tradition begun by his father, Glenn. Seibert's hobby/part-time enterprise is the subject of a feature by Lancaster Farming correspondent Sue Bowman, which appears on page B10 of the issue due in your mailbox on Friday.
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