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Growing Herbs as a Cash-Crop

Summary

When vegetable growers consider growing herbs, they usually think of fresh-market herbs, the most popular being sweet basil, cilantro, and flat-leaf parsley. Fresh market herbs can be grown on large acreages for sales to wholesalers and chainstores or on very small-acreages for direct sales to restaurants, farmer´s markets, and specialty grocery stores. One of the largest obstacles to getting started in fresh-market herb production is the lack of reliable, commercially oriented production information