China News Service, May 21, according to the US "World Daily" report, due to the impact of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, supermarkets and restaurants in New York were temporarily suspended. Today, although the epidemic has slowed down, many people have started to grow vegetables at home in the past two months, and many people have started to grow their own food at home. All kinds of vegetables, fruits and vegetables seedlings, business is quite hot.
Ms. You, a Chinese trader who sells vegetable seedlings at the intersection of Grand St. and Elizabeth St., said that she started to set up stalls last week. The Chinese originally liked to grow vegetables in their home gardens because of the outbreak Many supermarkets are closed and daily grocery shopping has become a challenge. More people have begun to join the ranks of growing vegetables. Although the flow of people on the street is still not comparable to that before the epidemic, the sales situation is similar to previous years.
Ms. You (right), who sells vegetables, fruits and vegetables on the streets of Chinatown. Although there were fewer pedestrians during the epidemic, the business was still good. (Source: Photo by Yan Jiaying, US "World Daily")
Ms. You said that most of the customer base is Chinese, and among all kinds of vegetable seedlings, melon seedlings are the most popular among Chinese; "Recently, many foreign ethnic groups have also come to buy vegetable seedlings, and they mostly buy tomatoes and peppers. (Yan Jiaying)