Rep. Tim Burchett
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My daddy had one of those sprayers.
I remember he grew these tomatoes.
And at the time, I remember, I think he spent $20
on tomatoes and fertilizer.
And we got like three of these gnarly tomatoes.
Of course, this is in the 70s and we're family of public educators.
So 20 bucks is righteous bucks.
And I said, daddy, I'd like to try that.
I wanna try organic gardening.
And he said, all right, you go ahead.
And at the time KUB used to come by the house
and a chipper truck.
And they'd pick up all your brush, throw them in the back of one of those big chippers and they'd spit it in the back of the truck.
And I said, what do y'all do with that stuff?
We take it to the landfill.
And I said, really, how much they pay you for it?
And they said, they don't, we pay them to take it.
This was in 1978.
I was in the eighth grade.
And so the wheels started turning.