Bill Higgins is the owner of Saratoga Garlic in Saratoga Springs, NY. The company is an organic produce and garlic farm.
A conversation with a steak house owner in Manhattan gave Bill Higgins the idea of farming organic produce. He gave up his initial idea of carrots and potatoes for garlic mainly due to the fact that is doesn't require the amount of acreage a field crop would require.
Okay. The, actually the way we got started in selling bulk garlic was somebody through another business operation that we run at the farm owns a restaurant in New York City and the conversation with the manager of that restaurant led us to a wholesaler in New York City who said that, you know, garl...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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