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, > > 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. > > 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. > > Easy to grow and harvest if you are not trying to make money onit. > > Jim > > * This may just have been a story. Something vaguely associated with PA > Dutch communities. - or not. > > > > > > > > On Jan 13, 2017, at 12:05 PM, Judy Glattstein <jgglatt@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > 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. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org <javascript:;> > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > Dr. James Waddick > 8871 NW Brostrom Rd > Kansas City, MO 64152-2711 > USA > Phone 816-746-1949 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org <javascript:;> > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/