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Mint consists of a very broad family of 3,500 plants, and all of them have square stems and opposite leaves. Aside from that, each type of mint is incredibly different; you may not have known as ...

INDEPENDENCE, Ore. — Scott Setniker drove over the windrowed field of peppermint toward a large harvester pulling a boxcar-like white trailer. The first day of the Setniker Farms peppermint harvest in ...

When I was growing up, my uncle Richard farmed mint. In the late summer, he and his crew would mow the mint fields like hay and collect the leaves in enclosed wagons, then drive them down to the still ...