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GREEN SCENE TURN OVER A NEW LEAF WITH BOK CHOY.(U)(Recipe)

Byline: David Schwartz Staff Writer

Tucked in between the freshly built houses, within a pitchfork's throw of the clogged freeways of Southern California, an unlikely cash crop grows. From the eastern edge of San Bernardino to the Chino Valley, bok choy has become the most valuable vegetable in the county.

Unlikely as it may seem, county farmers produced 16,000 tons of bok choy last year. Among all cash crops, it's ranked fifth, behind oranges.

Bok choy together with other Asian vegetables are now worth more than the exalted navel orange.

``Bok choy's on the rise,'' said Ed Pearson, an Ontario-based local area inspector, San Bernardino County Department of ...

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