This seasonal agriculture worker has only made 2 pies in his life. And one of them auctioned for $10K

It was only Dylan Jules' second time ever making a pie, so he was quite shocked to hear that it sold at the Harrow Fair for $10,000. 

"I was like 'oh it's crazy,'" said Jules, who is a seasonal agriculture worker at The Fruit Wagon in Harrow. 

"It feels good, I feel elated about it." 

The week before the Harrow Fair, Jules had his only pie-making lesson. His teacher? Co-owner of The Fruit Wagon, Leslie Huffman. 

"He likes to eat pies and I told him he could learn to make them," said Huffman. 

So the pair got together and gave it a shot. 

"And he did really well and I said you got to enter it in the fair," she said. 

But that wouldn't be the one that would auction off for thousands — Jules made a rhubarb pie on his own and submitted that one. It would end up winning among the rhubarb pies and beat out Huffman's pie. 

"I think it's way better than Leslie's [pie], cause in order to win the first prize you have to beat the teacher and I did," said Jules with a laugh. 

When Jules' pie was sold off, Huffman was in the crowd, watching in amazement. 

"All of the bidders were all around me, $1,000, $2,000, $3,000," Huffman said while laughing. 

"It was really tremendous." 

This is just the start for Jules, who says he's already thinking about next year's competition. 

"Next year ... I'm entering more pies at the fair and I believe I will still win," he said. 

WATCH: Dylan Jules reacts to his pie selling for $10K

Seasonal agriculture worker reacts to his pie auctioning for $10,000 at Harrow Fair

4 months ago

Duration 1:56

Dylan Jules says he didn't expect his pie to sell for so much money. His teacher, Leslie Huffman, talks about she encouraged him to enter the Harrow Fair. Other seasonal agriculture workers also spoke with CBC News about their winnings at the fair.

The Fruit Wagon workers win big

And Jules wasn't the only one winning big at the Harrow Fair. His coworkers at The Fruit Wagon also got recognized for different fruits and vegetables. 

Venus Jules had been nurturing his winning pumpkin since he planted it in April.   

He says he measured its circumference and it came out to about 1.8 metres. The pumpkin won him second place in the pumpkin growing competition.

"I'm so happy," he said, adding that he had gotten the pumpkin seeds from another local farmer who grows good pumpkins.

The pumpkin was so big that it needed to be picked up by a forklift and transported on a truck to the Harrow Fair. Once there, it needed another forklift to get it off the truck. 

Kendel Moore won first place in the Gala apples competition. 

"[The fair] told me my apples were very, very, very nice," he said. 

Moore says it's all in the colour and the size, his apples were "big and red." 

And Sylvanus Louis won for his tomatoes and for his squash. 

"I knew I would win," he said, adding that he carefully selected the best looking tomatoes to enter. 

"I feel great. I like the Harrow Fair, it's very exciting." 

Huffman, with The Fruit Wagon, says every year she tells the workers to enter the fair. 

"These men are here for seven or eight months and it's got to be a pretty lonely existence, so if they have local, enjoyable things to do we kind of like to encourage them to get out and do that and they certainly enjoy it," she said.