If you’re a big fan of vegetables, you might try to grow them yourself.
When I was little, my mom helped me plant tomatoes and cucumbers. I was so surprised when they actually grew, I didn’t know what to do with myself.
Did they actually taste or look good? Not really, but I was seven at the time, so I didn’t actually care.
When it comes to six-year-old Mason McClure from Shrewsbury, he has much better luck than I ever did with growing veggies.
Most children like to color or play as their hobby, but Mason likes to farm. He’s actually incredible at it too!
Mason became interested in gardening and farming at a very young age. His mother took him to the library so he could rent a book to learn how to start his own garden.
Now, Mason has green beans, carrots, cucumbers, radishes, cantaloupe, tomatoes, squash, peas, pumpkins, zucchini, cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli in the garden that he tends with his dad and paw-paw.
He even has his own Mason’s Market stand at his house, where he sells his vegetables. He’ll also drive his John Deere tractor to deliver produce to his neighbors.
Mason told the Department of Agriculture about his garden and they shot a video for their September Market Bulletin, which is how the folks over at Little Big Shots heard about him.
On the episode of Little Big Shots, Mason had host Steve Harvey cracking up about his vegetable prices. He even rode onto the stage on his John Deere tractor!
One person on Facebook was so impressed by Mason, they left a lengthy comment praising his work ethic and compared him to some famous businessmen:
The kid is learning how to be an entrepreneur. He has time to improve upon it. People like Gates, Buffett, and Cuban can tell you that is an important skill to develop at an early age in how to develop and market products and convince people to buy those particular products.
I truly hope the parents of this kid teach him to not to pay any particular heed to what Steve is teaching this kid in this video. Teach him there is a difference between making entertainment out of deception or “hustle” and in actually hustling people.
That is the problem with much of our business practices in America and more people are concerned about “hustling” than in actual ethical business practices.
Meanwhile, another commenter was not so nice and tried to make a joke about Mason’s “talent” – as Little Big Shots is meant to showcases children with different and unique talents.
The heckler wrote:
Wait, what was his talent?
A different Facebook user came to Mason’s defense and said:
Not being addicted to any electronics and having the know how and passion to raise very nice vegetables. Having that work ethic and knowledge is a great talent.
I think it is great that Mason loves to farm so much! He certainly can help feed his family for a very long time and they’ll always have a tasty vegetable in their house.
What do you think of Mason’s talent?
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