| 11. | Salicornia is available in specialty shops in season, from summer to early fall.
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| 12. | Salicornia even thrives on brackish water and saline runoff from power-plant cooling towers.
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| 13. | This makes salicornia a perfect crop to green the desert or reclaim spent agricultural land.
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| 14. | For now, HEI is the only company that farms salicornia anywhere in the world.
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| 15. | Koch says a ton of salicornia brings $ 3, 500 on the Paris market.
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| 16. | Here, the fecal matter left by the shrimp and tilapia fertilizes furrows of salicornia.
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| 17. | It is the source of salicornia oil.
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| 18. | For all the excitement, salicornia is an exotic plant without much glamour to its looks.
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| 19. | That's what HEI is already doing on its commercial salicornia farms, Koch said.
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| 20. | Standing alongside an irrigation sluice, he watches a seeder slowly cross a new salicornia field.
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