Great visit to the farmers market today. Kun Hung is a fellow from China that has lived here for several decades. He is growing Gingko trees from seed that he has brought from China to his acreage northeast of town. He now has 12,000 trees in various stages with some of the oldest ones at five feet tall. Drummers is a huge nursery/greenhouse in Mankato. Kun Hung and Drummers are working on a “grower to retailer” deal. I hope it works out for Kun Hung as Gingko trees are highly sought after in landscape design, and I know how hard he works on his farm.
This is Kun Hung’s first year at the farmers market with a huge variety of vegetables. He only uses soybean meal as fertilizer. I have a batch of creamed cucumbers going for supper using his Chinese Cucumbers. They are a bit sweeter than those I have bought from other vendors. The proof will be in our supper.
We are just so fortunate to have such a great selection of vendors at the farmers market three times a week. Our downtown shaded park is the perfect venue for the sellers and the community people to find a park bench for visiting.