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Great video of Nadejda and Valeriu. It's interesting that they're growing greens: salads are not a regular part of Moldovan cuisine, but this may be partly because the water supply isn't clean enough (yet) for growing greens.

My host family used maybe one application of insecticide and a pollinating hormone on their tomatoes, plus they had a couple of weeks in February when they had to get up in the middle of the night to keep the fire going in the hothouse.

Even when it's not organic, agriculture in Moldova is "less intensive" than in other parts of the world. I ran across the phrase as an explanation of why there such a big variety of birds there.

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