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Archive Home > 2006 > June > 06 > Making scents

Making scents

Tumalo farmer smells profit in aromatic plants

By Jeff McDonald / The Bulletin
June 6, 2006

Gordon Knight may look like the typical farmer with his tanned face, squinting eyes and calm demeanor. But the lifelong farmer decided to drop the hay bales and pick up bunches of lavender flowers last summer when he planted 1,000 of the small, aromatic shrubs on a test plot at his 10-acre farm....

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