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Old 10-25-2008, 11:01 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Gabe, at a very minimum you should consider growing some plants from the seeds of the berries. I have friends in Hawaii that have never heard of them and I think it could do well at a plant sale some time. Or you could do a farmer's market even where you sell some berries along with some fruits and then offer plants for sale. I would not be surprised if people went wild. Even just selling the berries at a farmer's market there could create quite a draw. Since they are perishable the shipping of them can be a problem so individual sales at a farmer's market could be a great way to expose more people to them. I also wonder what kind of fun I could have had them at parties in my college days.

Richard, I've read that article about the conspiracy of the sugar industry before and it seems contrived. We like our sweets in convenient and cheap forms way too much for the miracle fruit berry to ever become big competition. It's very fun to read, though!
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