The cash crops in wintermainly referred tovegetables, such as the preservedplanting of potatoes, preserved Szechwan pickles, mustards, freshpeas, horse beans, strawberries and so on.
He had treated me a year before when my mother had accidentally driven a garden fork through my toe when I was standing next to her, my wellington boots covered by earth, when she was plantingstrawberries in the garden.
Consider the strawberry farmer in Oxnard, California, who told CNN that not once in 25 years of planting and harvesting had an American citizen ever asked for a job picking strawberries.