Last modified: 8/2/2013 9:15:53 PM
Anyone who loves to stir-fry or to eat fresh Chinese vegetables like bok choy, knows Chang Farm in Whately, which has been around the Pioneer Valley for 38 years. But what about Jiang Farm in Montague?
Now that 85-year-old Tso-cheng Chang has scaled back his own vegetable production to concentrate on providing for the family’s Amherst Chinese Foods restaurant, the 21-acre operation run by Jiang Farm is selling its array of exotic Asian vegetables at Amherst Farmers Market, in the same spot that Chang Farm had occupied.
But Jiang Farm, which began in 1998 after renting two acres in South Deerfield, sells “99.9 percent” of its Chinese broccoli, pea greens, Asian scallion, bitter melon, Chinese celery, baby bok choy, Asian spinach and other specialty crops to the Boston wholesale market, according to Shao Zhi Kuo, who emigrated in 1990 with her husband, Xin Miao Jiang, from China’s Guangdong (Canton) Province.