12 POTATO GROWER | JUNE 2018
Bender Farms in Chambersburg, Pa.
By Tyrell Marchant
Photos courtesy Bender Farms
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A lot of farm kids—probably a healthy
majority—spend a good portion of their
youth grumbling about the long hours,
the low wages, the heat, the cold. They get
the work done, and even enjoy it from time
to time, though they are careful never to
let their parents know it. As they mature,
farm kids discover an appreciation for all
the simple yet profound lessons life on
the farm has taught them, and they set off
into the world to exercise their work ethic
and integrity and faith somewhere else.
Bryan Bender was just such a kid.
And then he wasn't.
Bryan Bender came back to the farm.
"When I was a kid, I didn't want to dig
potatoes and move irrigation pipe,"
Bender says. "I didn't want to do that.
But the environment it created was very
healthy, and I ultimately wanted to have
that opportunity for my kids and family."
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