New Zealand: Tuba player's tomatoes grow into $1000 profit for brass band
The former geochemistry professor from the University of Waikato earned $1000 from growing, marketing and selling heirloom tomatoes from 130 heritage plants.
The money would be used for the Cambridge Brass Band to travel to Le Quesnoy.
The band had been invited by the Cambridge sister city to play at its centenary celebration, making 100 years since its liberation from German occupation.
To be part of the event, the band needed $78,000 for its travel fund.
Hendry, from Hamilton, was aware of the high cost to travel and decided to have a go at raising some of the money himself.
Hendry grows 16 varieties of heirloom tomatoes.
Friends and neighbours have been more than happy to buy heirloom tomatoes from Hendry.
Read more at the Waikato Times (Mike Bain)
