b'This is what tomatoes used to taste like, an older customer remarked to Jon and Lauralee Loback, the owners of Hinterland Growers of Port Perry. It tastes like a real tomato!They also hear enthusiastic comments such as, This lettuce has so muchavour!and,These beets are so sweet!RIGHT IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD!At one point, Hinterland Growers had seed for over 100Their 10-acre property grows 170-180 di erent crops at any varieties of tomato plants, but theyve pared it down to their 30one time, includingve types of beets andve types of beans, favourites, all availableve days a week from their farm store. for example. Theres also a 5,000 square foot greenhouse, for the Commercial tomatoes are geared to providing fruit that hasdelicious tomatoes. the same size and shape, they pointed out. There are many moreThe spring plant sale in May quadrupled in sales this year choices available other than the seeds yound on the rack at aduring the pandemic because there has been a resurgence of local store or the vegetables yound on grocery store shelves,interest in home vegetable gardening, Lauralee observed.Lauralee noted. Please turn to page 4FOCUS - SEPTEMBER 20203'