Vegetable Seed Demand Grows Amid COVID-19 Boredom, Fears

Vegetable Seed Demand Grows Amid COVID-19 Boredom, Fears
Broccoli grows in the ground at City Slicker Farm’s Center Street Farm in Oakland, Calif., on June 25, 2009. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Ilene Eng
Ilene Eng
Reporter
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—People with ample time on their hands because of lockdown orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic have begun growing their own vegetables in home gardens, which means seed suppliers have been especially busy.

Maya Shiroyama, co-owner of Kitazawa Seed Co., says she’s never seen anything like it.

Ilene Eng
Ilene Eng
Reporter
Ilene is a reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area covering Northern California news.
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