Don Day: The best selection of lettuce I’ve ever seen. And right here in San Miguel

Published February 28, 2022

I was extremely jealous this week. I was at Chinaberry Farm, just outside of San Miguel de Allende, chatting to owner Deborah Richards, and I kept thinking “I wish I was doing what she’s doing”.

Deborah Richards is growing vegetables, some of the best vegetables I’ve ever seen, some of the best vegetables I’ve ever eaten.

“It all began in 2019”, Deborah said, “when we purchased the aquaponics building”.

“Aquaponics”, I replied, “like hydroponics?”

“Not quite”, said Deborah, “aquaponics uses fish.”

“Fish?”, I fired back.

“Come on I’ll show you”, said Deborah, “it uses only 5 to 10% of the water compared to growing vegetables in the ground.”

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