Could Saffron Help Vermont Farmers?

From HK hk@icarustrading.com
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 17:20:26 PST
How long can you harvest and grow if you cannot support it?

On Friday, January 13, 2017, James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> wrote:

> Judy,
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>         I vaguely nrecall that the ‘Last Saffron Farm’ * on the east coast
> was in PA near Phil. My original stock of bulbs came from there when they
> closed years ago.  Wages simply made i t uncommercial.
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>         On the other hand I’d certinly urge small growers to produce
> saffron as a specialty product for farmers market where they could gert a
> premium prices for even small amounts.
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>         Easy to grow and harvest if you are not trying to make money onit.
>
>                         Jim
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> * This may just have been a story. Something vaguely associated with PA
> Dutch communities. -  or not.
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> On Jan 13, 2017, at 12:05 PM, Judy Glattstein <jgglatt@gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
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> Calling saffron "the world's most expensive spice," a BBC article:
> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37581228/ looks into what's
> involved in raising and harvest saffron in New England's ski-centric state
> of Vermont.
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> So perhaps we'll have our choice of imported-from-Afghanistan or
> domestically-produced saffron. Paella for all!
> Fahrenheit
> Judy in the Garden State, where our weather is gleefully flip-flopping
> from nighttime lows of 9 degrees Fahrenheit to a daytime high of 59 degrees
> fahrenheit a week later
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