A Tribute to Joe Rumpza - The Vegetable King

1922 - 2002

Potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkins and greens,

sumptuous sweet-corn, all sorts of beans,

cantaloupe, honeydew, name any melon,

planted then ripened, soon ready for sellin’.

What sort of hard-workin’ son-of-gun

could get things to market, get the job done?

Joe Rumpza! Joe Rumpza! A name known ...