【Chapter 510】 Purple Sweet Potato Harvest (Happy New Year!) )
In the next few days, in order to match Mu Jin and Pan Shi, Xiao Feng deliberately placed the coffee tasting meeting in the main store of 'Colorful Sunshine', so that Pan Shi poured cup after cup of coffee with joy.
The coffee in the first two days was still somewhat depressing, either too sour or too bitter, or not up or down, without the slightest characteristic. However, with the continuous feedback of various tasting numbers, the researchers of 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' are also actively making improvements, and the roasted coffee is becoming more and more able to present the characteristics of the coffee in the park, which is becoming more and more fascinating.
By the time the National Day Golden Week was coming to an end, Xiao Feng was convinced that the researchers at Mengyao Coffee Garden had found the best way to roast these beans and selected the best-tasting coffee varieties.
Surprisingly, those coffees from Colombia and Hawaii may not be produced by the 'Jinghu System' because of the poor taste of the water and soil, and only the small grain coffee in southern Yunnan and the Mocha coffee in the Middle East are truly adapted to the environment of Ginkgo Village, and the quality is extremely high!
After these experiments, Mengyao Coffee Garden has preliminarily determined that small grain coffee and mocha coffee will be the main varieties planted in the park, and the planting task will be completed before the snowfall this winter.
After determining the best roasting and brewing method of coffee beans, 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' still has not stopped opening to tourists, and more and more tourists have experienced the fun of picking coffee cherries and roasting and grinding coffee beans by themselves, which has also made this project a hot tourist project in this autumn scenic spot!
In fact, the reason why the coffee plantation is open is that the current fruit setting rate is too low to be suitable for large-scale harvesting and production, and it can be regarded as making the best use of it for tourists to participate in it.
These tourists who came home with coffee did not expect that these vacuum-packed coffee beans would have a great reputation a year later, and become the most famous alpine coffee in China.
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Seeing that the relationship between Mu Jin and Pan Shi was getting closer and closer, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao naturally ended the coffee tasting with great eyes, leaving more space for the two young people.
The task of Xiao Feng and the others has been successfully completed so far, as for how far the two of them can go in the future, it depends on the fate between them. This kind of thing, you can't overstep the bounds, otherwise it is easy to leave a bane, and in the end it will be unpleasant for both sides!
Sometimes, you don't need to be overzealous about the affairs of your friends and family, or it may backfire!
After the two of them started to fall in love, Xiao Feng's coffee tasting could only be held at home, but unfortunately his wife at home couldn't have coffee, Nini was still young, and several old people only drank tea, Xiao Feng became a loner in a blink of an eye.
However, considering the future development of 'Mengyao Coffee Garden', Xiao Feng can only endure this loneliness!
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Just when Xiao Feng poured coffee, another agricultural product planted by Xiao's farm and the villagers of Ginkgo Village also entered the harvest season one after another, which also added a bit of sweetness to this autumn.
Since the launch of the 'Ginkgo Biloba Specialty' online store, various products made of purple potatoes have been sold well on the Internet, thus driving the development of the upstream raw material industry.
Purple sweet potato is a crop with extremely high yield, strong soil adaptability, and extensive management, and has been very popular in Ginkgo Village and even surrounding villages since it was introduced by Yaozhou Agricultural Science Institute.
However, due to the lack of sales for the villagers, most of these purple potatoes are reduced to feed pigs and cattle, and only a few are made into vermicelli and are self-sufficient.
After Xiao Feng returned to Ginkgo Village to invest, the seemingly inconspicuous purple potato also regained its new vitality, whether it was dried purple potato or purple vermicelli made from it, it was popular in the market!
Taking 500 grams of dried purple potatoes as an example, the price of 'Ginkgo Biloba Specialties' online store is 18 yuan, which is much more expensive than ordinary pork. However, even with this high price without free shipping, 'Ginkgo Biloba Specialty' has still sold 2 million copies, or about 100 tons, in the past 12 months!
To this end, at the beginning of this year, Xiaojia Farm and many villagers planted purple potatoes in most of the mountainous areas of the village, with a planting area of more than 3,000 acres, becoming one of the crops with the largest planting area in Ginkgo Village.
Although these purple potato fields usually look quite plain, in the harvest season, they are so dazzling!
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Chu Tianlin and Fang Fang are both children in the city, but they have only seen French fries in fast food restaurants and roasted sweet potatoes on the street, and they have really never seen a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes.
Therefore, when they saw that the scenic spot posted an announcement inviting tourists to the purple potato field to participate in the purple potato harvesting action, they were immediately moved!
Early in the morning of October 6th, Chu Tianlin and Fang Fang had not yet gotten up, when they heard a commotion coming from downstairs, and when they saw that it was the innkeeper Xiao Jiangguo, who had already begun to pack up his tools, they hurriedly followed.
When Xiao Jiangguo drove away from the inn with a wooden car, he was followed by a large group of tourists such as Chu Tianlin, both old and young, with interested expressions on their faces.
Chu Tianlin and other young people had never seen the scene of a sweet potato harvest and were full of curiosity, while some elderly people remembered all kinds of things when they were young, so they naturally couldn't miss it.
In fact, along the way, there are also many tourists who follow the owners of their respective accommodation inns to the purple potato fields outside the village to witness today's harvest.
Since the field management of purple potatoes is not complicated and does not require much attention, many villagers with mountainous areas have planted this easy-to-manage crop.
It didn't take much time for Chu Tianlin to follow Xiao Jiangguo to a small hill located on the shore of Jinghu Lake, where the terraced fields were layered on top of each other, looking quite spectacular. Next to the terraces, a cow and a set of tools for plowing the field are already waiting!
These terraced rice fields are the results of the ancestors of Ginkgo Village who have been fighting against nature with hoes for generations, and similar hilly terraces have nearly 5,000 acres around Jinghu Lake!
Before that, most of the villagers planted sweet potatoes, sorghum, barley and other crops here to increase their income, and these terraced fields also played a very important role in the reason why the living conditions of Ginkgo Village were better than ordinary villages.
However, when the price of crops was low, these terraced fields were gradually abandoned, and in the past two years, due to the rise of the Jinghu system, coarse grains have become popular, so that the villagers have re-attached importance to these terraced fields, which are almost abandoned.
In addition to the lakeside flat land contracted to the 'Xiao Family Farm', basically every household also has twenty or thirty acres of mountain terraces, which is the most suitable for growing sweet potatoes.
"This terraced field is our family's purple potato field, and everyone is digging here today!" After Xiao Jiangguo brought everyone to the ground, he pointed to several terraced fields and introduced them to everyone.
These tourists are just here to take advantage of the excitement, Xiao Jiangguo naturally doesn't expect tourists to help, they don't help it's good. Therefore, Xiao Jiangguo specially designated a small area of terraced fields for tourists to dig with hoes, and he himself used ploughing oxen and iron ploughs to start the action.
In fact, with the great changes in the economy of Ginkgo Village, many villagers no longer raise cattle at home, but in order to maintain the farming characteristics of Ginkgo Village, Xiaojia Farm and Ranch have raised a lot of cattle, so that tourists can feel a variety of strong rural characteristics.
The ploughing oxen and iron ploughs that Xiao Jiangguo drives today are all transferred from the Xiao family's farm, but for Xiao Jiangguo, a farmer, this is not too difficult.
"Uncle Xiao, why can't you see purple potatoes?" Looking at the bare ground, Chu Tianlin and Fang Fang were a little puzzled, why couldn't they see the purple potato?
For the two city children, when the purple potato was harvested and fed to the pig farm, they really had no way to know that the purple potato was buried deep in the ground.
"Silly boy, look at the uncle to play a trick on you!" Xiao Jiangguo listened to Chu Tianlin's funny questions and said with a smile.
In the past few days of contact, Xiao Jiangguo also knows that Chu Tianlin and his wife have very good personalities, but they don't know much about rural life, so they won't laugh at them.
After speaking, Xiao Jiangguo had already set up the ploughing ox and the iron plough, and was ready on the edge of the purple potato field.
As the iron plough continued to advance, the land where the purple potatoes were buried was deeply turned over, and a miracle suddenly appeared in the originally plain land.
Chu Tianlin and Fang Fang were stunned when they saw the round purple potatoes magically appear on the ground, it turned out that the purple potatoes had a bumper harvest in this way!
Because the purple potatoes grown in Ginkgo Village are soaked in the 'Space Spirit Spring', and the daily irrigation is also done with mountain spring water containing the 'Space Spirit Spring', so their yield is not low. According to last year's figures, the average yield per mu reached 2 tons, which is lower than some high-yielding sweet potatoes, but much higher than the yield of purple potatoes in other regions.
With such a high yield, the huge sweet potatoes appeared in front of everyone like a galaxy in the sky, and everyone felt the joy of the harvest.
At this time, Chu Tianlin finally knew how to dig purple potatoes, and began to learn from other tourists to pick up hoes to dig purple potatoes, although they were a little clumsy, but every time they dug out a purple potato, they were excited.
After digging the purple potatoes for a while, Xiao Jiangguo dug a pit in the ground again, and began to roast the purple potatoes on the fire, so that Chu Tianlin and the others could enjoy the original roasted purple potatoes.
Similar scenes continue to be played out in the terraced rice fields around Ginkgo Village, and many tourists in the city have experienced the fun that cannot be enjoyed in the city, and they are extremely happy!
And the joy brought by the abundant purple potatoes to the villagers is even more than that, because these purple potatoes can bring them more economic benefits in the future, which is also a large part of the annual income. Two tons of purple potatoes can at least make 1,000 catties of dried purple potatoes and sell them for 10,000 yuan, so that many families can get more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan in purple potatoes!
For Ginkgo Village, which is committed to building the first village in southern Yunnan, these revenues will play a vital role! R1152