The ingredients listed on the label of Cassandras Garden Salsa are tomatoes, onion, bell pepper, tomato paste, apple cider vinegar, banana pepper, lime juice, salt, garlic and chili powder. But Cassandra Brown knows a lot more goes into it than that.
Since she began selling her salsa at Charlotte-area Harris Teeter stores in late May, Cassandra, a 16-year-old junior at Providence Day School, has learned more about business than many people do in a lifetime. Shes also learned a lot about herself and what she can accomplish, as well as the importance of supportive family and friends.
Its been an amazing experience in many ways, Cassie says. Its a lot of hard work, but Ive also had fun with it. And my family has been a big help.
Cooking up a business
Family is where it all began. Cassies grandfather is a farmer, which inspired her love of gardening at an early age.
When I was 6, I made a garden with tomatoes, peppers, that kind of thing, she says. When I was 9, we started to make salsa and sell it to friends because we had so many tomatoes and peppers that we had to
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