Brown mustard, Brassica juncea, is a plant that was highly diversified in Asia to produce various seed and vegetable varieties.

Oregon is a leading producer of hazelnuts in the world.

Varieties of olives from northern parts of the Mediterranean Sea have proven successful in the Willamette Valley.

If rice can be grown as far north as Kazakhstan and Switzerland, we can do it here in the Pacific Northwest.

Brassica napus, the product of a cross between two mustard plants, has been bred into several vegetable and oil crops.

The common sunflower is grown for its seeds and the sunchoke is grown for its tubers.

Turnips were domesticated and bred into many different crops that many people don’t realize are the same plant.