The store sells Halsey apples, cider, cider doughnuts and other homegrown products, many from Vermont.

Autodry, a homegrown product that took more than three years to develop, will pull in $100 million in its first year, Mr. Gilbreath predicted.

Rural markets selling peasants' homegrown products and the surplus products of communes were revived.

To think that after 15 years as a homegrown product, it could be over for Glavine.

For decades, technology companies have competed by persuading customers to buy their homegrown products.

American companies have frequently complained of regulatory actions aimed at slowing penetration of the Japanese market by foreign products until homegrown products can be developed.

So how does this homegrown product compare to the best the Japanese have to offer?

Arctic Ice is another homegrown product, made in Trenton since 1931.

"We're not locked into homegrown products, so we can pick the best of breed," Mr. Breslawsky said.

On Friday night, Joanna Berman, a homegrown product of the company, demonstrated easily that her early potential has been fulfilled.