The farming community in SW Ontario where GVB and I grew up used to have a lot of tobacco. Now many of those fields have gone over to ginseng. It's easy to recognise because they put up black nets over the crops. Picking tobacco was a right-of-passage, back-breaking, soul-destroying summer job for teenagers in our area and migrant workers. Dunno if ginseng offers the same kind of fabulous employment opportunities.
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- sally mckay 5-04-2010 2:04 pm