I am hoping to investigate her area one of these days. My wife was raised not far from her farm and my brother-in-law lives in the area but we haven't been down there for a few years.
Back when that article came out I did some searching in phonebooks, etc. and my best guess is that her farm is located on the top of a ridge as marked in this Google map:
36850 E. 92nd St.,Littlerock, CA 93543 - Google Maps. I'm not positive that's her place, but I would like to head down by that area to find out what I can see if I've got the time. Maybe you can drive by Mitchel and report back.
I am also somewhat skeptical and have experienced reporting errors firsthand, but it seems odd that they would mention these things. The farmers' market mentioned in the article is a certified market, I believe (as nearly all are) so supposedly everything she is selling is stuff she is growing. A friend of mine visited with her at the market in August 2007 and I just wrote him to ask for some confirmation of the fruit being grown by her.
In part, he wrote:
Quote:
|
I went this morning. Difficult to find. Parking is also very difficult. Primarily Asian vegetables. I did buy jackfruit from the lady who came up from Palmdale. She also had litchees, longans, big papayas and durian.
|
and
Quote:
I didn't get the price on the litchees, but the jackfruit was expensive--$4.50 per lb.
The Palmdale lady is there every Saturday. She is also at the Oakland old town market on Friday mornings but doesn't sell her tropical fruits there because she says the people who come to the Oakland market usually don't have the money. Her brother sells at the Santa Monica market and two of the other beach towns in SoCal.
|