Sunday, April 21, 2013

Field Day 2: Ginger Field Day

It wasn't until I joined this field day last fall that I really got to understand many information about ginger. I learned that it is a good source of anti-oxidants and has many other tremendous benefits to health.  Yesterday, as I celebrated my birthday (alone "sob") in a Chinese eat-all-you can, I was looking for something that wasn't there. I was looking for ginger. There wasn't a piece of ginger or a trace of it in the food I ate. Or, there might have been - just very faint it was hardly noticeable.

 I went out with some staff from university for this ginger field day. They are teaching farmers to grow ginger  in spite of America's freezing temperatures. Marketing ginger was also discussed; and I think it is so much better to classify ginger in terms of size rather than put a big tuber in the vegetable section and let shoppers snap them to pieces.
 
 A dollar an ounce. I could grow ginger in the province in the Philippines and make a fortune out of it.
 Because they thrive in warmer climates, ginger is best grown in heated sheds for the cold months.
 Really love these farm structures here.
 I'm imagining a ginger plantation.
 Ginger as big as your hand.
Gotta write this down in my potential business venture list. :)

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