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Article: Colorado Growers Have High Hopes for Grain First Cultivated by Incas. (Originated from The Gazette Telegraph, Colorado Springs, Colo.)
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- January 31, 1994
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SAN LUIS, Colo.--Feb. 1--With the January sun beating down on the bare fields of San Luis Valley, it takes imagination to see multi-colored heads of quinoa swaying in the breeze.
But in September, loaded seed heads of this grain first used by the Incas waved from more than 100 acres at White Mountain Farm.
A few months from now, sometime between late April and the middle of June, Ernie New and his son, Paul, will lay more quinoa (pronounced keen-a- wa) seed into the earth of their 1,100-acre farm in Mosca.
It's one of several alternative crops they plant and grow. They're on a campaign to plant more and encourage other farmers in the valley to do the ...