Farm families grow up happy at the South Bend Farmers Market

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Bov Vite's father and uncle were both vendors at the South Bend Farmers Market. As a teenager he worked for them there and on the farm before becoming a market stockholder with his own stall in 1968.
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Carol Lemler says her “pride and joy” is seeing her children, with their mates and families, taking over the family business.
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Joe Sawyer took over the family business while he was still young, and “over the years, as owner, developed a passion for it.”
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Bob Vite has worked a lifetime of Saturdays at the South Bend Farmers Market. He sells plants, produce and citrus grown on his family farms.
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Michael Richert says, of the ups and downs of farming, “It’s in our blood, so we stay farming, starting from scratch all over again,” every time.
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