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All right, let's go a little walk.

Okay.

This is later planted cauliflower, this is fennel.

I'm out with Alan Schreiber on its

Altopia farm. It's about 10 miles south of Basin City. It's a flat place here

Beat on by unrelenting sun, irrigation sprinklers

thwhack, whack in a constant rhythm fighting the rays.

It's here that Alan grows more than 300 different varieties of lush crops.

That includes asparagus, 15 kinds of melons, eggplant,

okra. A broccoli, cucumber and as I said this is in farmers market this is all organic. These are peppers.

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