Source: HICKORY RECORD, 7/13/15

Last Tuesday, with early morning sun already blazing hot, Zha Xue Yang and his wife moved around their plot, tending to their green onions, winter melons, ginger and rice. "Before they met me, they only did just rice,” Der Xiong said, who works at Catawba County’s Cooperative Extension Center and operates the three-acre site where the Yangs farm. "

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