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  • From: dave.kathy AT att.net
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Asian marketing
  • Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 01:25:27 +0000

My Farmer's Market customer, Mrs. Choi, Korean, was overjoyed to see I had
mustard greens ("Osaka purple" variety). I'd only brought a few bunches to
the Market as a test, and just a few days later, on our invitation, Mrs. Choi
came out to our farm and bought ALL the Osaka purple mustard plants left in
that 30-ft row. She uses them to make kim shi (very roughly speaking, Korean
saurkraut). The purple tint was new to her, but she says it makes a lovely
pink kim shi that all her friends exclaim over... She also was interested in
our Indian corn, though it turned out what she really wanted was that high-
starch blue corn like they grow in New Mexico. Not Korean, of course, but
apparently she and Dr. Choi somehow got to like it living here in America.
So, you never know...

Dave Campbell
Tiffin Iowa

> What crops should I be looking at?




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