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Bench Farms' Ben Rossler tosses a watermelon.

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Bench Farms' Rachel South, left, serves customers Linda Breuer and Henry Breuer of Toledo.

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Bench Farms' Dee Hechler waters plants.

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Tomatoes fresh picked on the farm.

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Bench Farms' Pam Larue, right, tosses a melon to Sandy Albright.

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Eileem Snare and Darrell Snare of Martinsburg, Pa., shop for cucumbers.

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Tomatoes and corn are seen ready for sale.

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The exterior of Bench Farms in Curtice, Ohio.

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Bench Farms' Ben Rossler empties out old corn form the last harvest.

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Kurt Bench of Shared Legacy Farms, center, son of Bench Farms' owners Dave Bench and Cindy Bench, picks corn from the field and tosses them onto a conveyor belt.

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Kurt Bench of Shared Legacy Farms, center, harvests corn from the field and tosses them onto a conveyor belt.

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Kurt Bench of Shared Legacy Farms, center, picks corn from the field and tosses them onto a conveyor belt.

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Bench Farms' Ben Rossler sorts out the harvested corn next to a conveyor belt.

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Bench Farms' Dave Bench drives the tractor forward as the machine collects hand-picked corn from the field.

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A bin of corn on a tractor.

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