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Jan 30, 2015 9:52 PM CST
Name: Mike Dunton
Liberal, Oregon (Zone 8b)
Plant Database Moderator Tomato Heads Farmer Organic Gardener Composter Heirlooms
Seed Starter Vegetable Grower Herbs Seller of Garden Stuff Vermiculture Region: Pacific Northwest
Having recently received my first acorns, I went to dress up my moniker with some of the spiffy microbadges I see everyone displaying, and as I scrolled down looking for the one I assumed would be an obvious offering, it was missing!

There is a large, and growing, gardening subculture who are not represented by a badge - Tomato Heads. You know who you are. We can't help it. Every year we add new (or in my case, old) tomato varieties to our growout lists. We congregate to form annual festivals to do nothing more that show off our successes, taste test, and snag more seeds. We are the ones willing to pay five dollars for a seed (just one time, but remember the 'Marianna's Peace' craze a few years back?!?!)

Anyway, my suggestion is to create a microbadge (Tomato Head?) and to discourage the standard gardener who simply grows a tomato plant or two, price it higher (10 acorns? More?).

Comments . . . suggestions?

~Mike
Biodiversity preservationist, horticultural historian, seedsman and farmer. Seedsman Hall of Fame

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