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Expensive crop

Date4/27/1982

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Brennan, Pat (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Expensive crop: It costs $25;000 an acre to start a ginseng farm - most of it for the lumber needed for the posts planted 3.7 metres (12 feet) apart; which hold up wooden slats to keep the sun off the fragile ginseng plants on a farm run by manager Woo Lee; west of Highway 400 near King City.

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0023158F

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