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I received our first sales call last night. A neighbor wants to buy some cherry tomato seedlings, and we certainly have some. Plus, this morning I am donating a tray of seedlings to the church plant sale. I put little labels on the seedlings with our farm name, etc.

It is a little strange to put yourself out there in a business sense. For example, I was tempted just to give the neighbor some seedlings, but then I thought, "It will be hard to make money at that rate."

And then you realize that as soon as you start marketing and selling you start to develop a reputation, and that reputation matters. I suppose this is obvious to anyone who is even remotely connected to a business, but this is our first foray into business ownership, so a lot of this stuff is somewhat new for us.