"DC." > wrote
> maybe i'm just a bad gardener/veg. grower... you know the ones... get into
> the garden on the first day of spring do about an hours work then leave it
> till autumn ; )
Me, I've got a perfect brown thumb ;-). And when I start talking to plants,
I know I'm due for some R&R.

> ... you can post to alt.binaries.food
> & we can all see & talk about it, <snip> It's always good to just lurk for
> a
> couple of days to see what's going on before posting. And if you do decide
> to post, may i suggest a short series, starting with the Hmong farmers at
> their stalls(i'd like to see what it's like), then the vegs. you buy from
> them & finally the end result on the plate. That would be a good set of
> pics
> to start with. I've been hanging round alt.bin.food for about 2 years now
> &
> i don't think anyone has ever mentioned or taken pics of the Hmong farmer
> markets!

The series sounds like a good idea. I'll try to take some pics this week,
though my dig cam is just a point and pray type (the SLR is on the "someday
when I'm rich" wish list). Probably no people, at least close up, since the
older Hmong, at least, are shy of picture taking. But I could get their
booth and array of veg's and closeups of a few. Not sure how instructive a
mess of cooked greens would be, but I can try.

BTW, it's not a whole market of Hmong farmers, it's just one booth, fairly
small, at a general farmers market. And they've proved popular enough, I
guess, that they aren't even all Hmong any more ... at one market the booth
is the Wang (or Chang?) family farm, same basic produce and layout. Maybe
a Mr. Wang married into the Hmong?