Ethnic Greens Trial, 2012
Robert Hadad, Extension Vegetable Specialist
Cornell Vegetable Program
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The interest from the attendees in exploring growing ethnic vegetables was quite high coming out of the workshop. With a little funding from the Western NY CCE Association group, Robert Hadad launched a two year ethnic vegetable variety and marketing trial. The focus is to see how well assortments of vegetables that represent some different nationalities perform here in WNY under our wildly fluctuating weather conditions and also to see how growers can market these new vegetables, how customers respond to them at the market, and what is needed to reach targeted communities perhaps.
A written overview of the trial is provided below, a list of ethnic vegetable names and seed sources, as well as a presentation providing photos and information on the different greens featured in the trial.
Ethnic Greens Trial Overview (pdf; 312KB)
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