What’s Your Opinion?

ByAdBarefootmin

Here at Long Hungry Creek Farm we like to deliver only the best, highest quality produce. We have these turnips, and we think every single one of them are de-lic-ious, but we heard that some people don’t like the big ones, and some people don’t like the small ones.

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What’s your opinion? We want to know what we should leave in the field and what we should take to our customers, eaters and friends.

Big, medium, or small? Is it a texture thing? Bitterness or sweetness kinda thing?

Leave your input in the comments and we’ll use it to shape our harvesting habits accordingly!

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