36 Horticultural Festival
Considering the budget and investment of Collins Hotel Apartments, Lin Yilong returned to his home in Brecken Timberland.
After almost a month in the country, it was just in time for a larger public relations event, the horticultural exhibition festival in the town of Mastach.
The English countryside experiences several seasonal showcase opportunities every year, such as the Country Gardening Festival, the Country Farm Competition, and the like. In one part of "The Dog", there is this kind of small-town-based rural gardening competition in Britain.
The first time Lin Yilong heard of this kind of stuff had nothing to do with movies or other media promotions, and the direct trigger was a trip to the Lake District.
When it comes to the Lake District, many people's first impression is that the Lakeside School, which includes the Wordsworth trio, but it is not the Lakeside poets who really make the Lakeside School famous, but Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit.
Lin Yilong was on a trip to the Lake District a few years ago just in time for a rural gardening show in Badmir.
This kind of rural horticultural exhibition, which was originally intended to allow farmers to sell their crops directly in the towns, is a seasonal market that adds to the celebratory color. In August and September each year, the festival also hosts a horticultural contest to vote for the best agricultural category.
Although Mastach as a mining town has declined, it does not prevent farmers living in the entire Ogmo Gorge from coming to Mastach for horticultural exhibitions.
Bracken Tree Farm also qualified for the horticultural show in Mastach, with a £25 advance payment in exchange for a morning stand.
Ever since Lin Yilong bought the town of Griggweh and the nearby river valley forest, the townspeople of Mastagh have a very mysterious impression of the Bracken Timberlands, and meeting them at this time can relieve them of their hostility towards him to a certain extent.
The content of the competition is very approachable, just take your gardening products to the market and put together a vote. Because it is the vote of the townspeople themselves, it is obviously very in line with the feelings of the townspeople themselves, and it is not the same as the evaluation criteria of other agricultural industry exhibitions.
Under such an evaluation system, it is not very suitable for large farms and pastures, and it is not very suitable for Bracken tree farms. But Lin Yilong's forest farm garden can be understood as a family garden "hanging overseas", even if it is to show that he wants to connect with the townspeople, he must participate in the garden competition of the two towns of Mastach and Lower Nes.
In other words, Lin Yilong had to bring something that would catch the attention of the townspeople. But his saffron was finished, the truffles were being cultivated in the forest, the calves had not yet had time to fatten, and the stock of honey had been snapped up by the pharmacies, and all that was left for display was the horseweed that he had considered for his own use, namely wasabi.
The Welsh people's ability to accept mustard is also okay, and the intensity of the dyed mustard sauce eaten with Japanese sashimi and sushi is acceptable, Lin Yilong is not afraid that his wasabi sauce will not be sold, on the contrary, his wasabi is for his own use, Lin Yilong is worried that his wasabi sauce is too popular and does not have enough processing quantity, so he only brought a small 50 bottles that are not covered in the spread, and the rest of the tabletop, take the refrigerated fresh wasabi and the grinding plate especially in the shark skin material to fill the number.
At 4 a.m. on August 20, Lin Yilong set up his booth and waited for the townspeople to come.
There were not many farmers competing at the horticultural fair, less than 40 of them came, and the rest was filled by the local ice cream parlors, dessert shops and bakeries in Mastach, as well as the fishmongers selling rifle bread in the market, where "organic" lamb, "organic free-range" eggs and "organic" vegetables are the main elements of the horticultural fair, and these are the only conditions for the horticultural fair, and at the same time what the townspeople want.
Under Lin Yilong's table, the slogan "The only wasabi in Wales" was displayed on it, and on it were "ordinary" sushi, "organic" wasabi sauce and "organic" fresh wasabi that Lin and Katie had worked on overnight.
Organic food is not meant to be healthy, nutritious, or safe. According to the EU's definition of organic food, non-GMO food that has not been irradiated on unpolluted land without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and manure from underground water pipes is organic food. However, the probability of not eating non-organic food in daily life is 0, organic food accounts for less than 2% of the total food production in the EU, and in feed and other agricultural raw materials, organic raw materials account for less than 0.4% of the entire agricultural raw materials, even the meadows have been sprinkled with fertilizer, and no one can guarantee that they are eating pure organic food.
Well, maybe it's because I can't eat it every day and feel that all kinds of unnatural things in modern agriculture are used too much, so I think organic food is healthy, nutritious and safe.
However, for Lin Yilong, the words "organic", "all-green" and "free-range" are all over the place. He eats the cheapest meat and vegetables on the supermarket shelves every day, and has absolutely no connection with these words.
The townspeople of Mastach are not surprised that Lin Yilong set up a stall at the horticultural festival, but the real magic is Wasabi and the "Brecken Farm", and from the BBC documentary, many people already know that fresh wasabi has been successfully cultivated outside of Southampton, but they have seen that their own town has also cultivated this condiment that makes them feel like an artifact.
Helping to set up the stall were Lin Yilong's two forest farm leaders, Peter and Sasha, and the wasabi was fairly priced, about 5 pounds, and each wasabi that was picked was suggested to be pureed. Because the townspeople had never seen fresh wasabi, they didn't think the wasabi tasted any different from mustard, so they waited for Lin Yilong's sample before they started buying it.
The townsfolk who came to the festival were in an endless stream, and after passing by the stalls of the Bracken Tree Farm, they would always take a little more look at the stalls of the Bracken Forest Farm, and after a while, Lin Yilong had sold out of a large box of wasabi, and had to regretfully close the stall. But Lin Yilong, Peter and Sasha were not in a hurry to leave, but took out the two boxes of wasabi sauce and long stick biscuits that they had prepared and put them together for the townspeople to try.
At the end of the festival at 11 a.m., the mayor of Masach awarded the wasabi of Beacon Farm a special award for the "feat" of breaking the English monopoly on wasabi production and planting it in Wales. The £2,500 in favour of the garden sector was not in vain, although no one was interested in the creation of the new prize, and no one applauded the special prize when it was announced. In this small town of Mastach, where mining is declining and agriculture is thriving, it is slowly beginning to accept Bracken Tree Farm and Lin Yilong.