Marketplace: "Day in the Work Life" Flower Farmer

Friday, September 23, 2005

"Day in the Work Life" Flower Farmer

On this week's "A Day In the Work Life" — our regular look at how folks trade time for money — we plant seeds with a flower farmer.

Sue Putman runs Putman Place Flowers in Somerset County, PA. (Photo: Mark Nootbaar)

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