10-year-old helps grow and sell his own crops 'If you work hard, you make money.'
Story Date: 9/5/2011

 

Source: Monica Young, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 9/5/11


By the time Ian Jenkins was 3, he was a fixture in his grandfather's garden in Wallburg. Ian is now a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Calvary Baptist Day School, and he has learned from his grandfather, Andy Hege, so well that he has become an agricultural entrepreneur of sorts, growing and selling tomatoes at a roadside stand and a farmers market, as well as directly to two restaurants.

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