Re: Got mint in your area?

Posted by Hal/WA on August 30, 2005 at 20:16:28 from (148.65.0.200):

In Reply to: Got mint in your area? posted by Can't even use my name on August 30, 2005 at 19:13:36:

Thirty years ago at least one farmer grew mint in the Spokane Valley. I think it was peppermint and the plots were only a couple of acres in size. They used sprinkler pipe irrigation and had to move the pipes around by hand. The mint sure did smell good when we drove past it on the way to the lake where we swam.

I haven't seen any mint around here for years....I always wondered just how it was harvested and processed. I doubt it was hand cut, but the plots would have been small enough so that might have been a possibility. I suppose the harvested mint was distilled in some way. Maybe the marked for the mint oil went away or they just decided it didn't pay well enough.

Unfortunately now there are suburban houses where the mint plots were. I hate to see good farmland go for housing, but "thats progress", and I wouldn't doubt that the farmer made a lot more money with that land selling it to a developer than he ever did farming it. OH WELL.....

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