Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Nobuzo Endo

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Nobuzo Endo 4-3-84 s2:11 NE Seed. Yes. Sf Everything was a seed then. NE I built greenhouse over here. Not over here, but when I wason Sugar Street, to raise celery plants. And sometimes tomatoe plants. I found out tomatoes might be cheaper to buy it from SF Ahuh, the plants. NE YEs, right· Sf One inch, two inch. NE Only problem, they'renot ready when I needed k. So I laid quite a few and what not enough, I them. SF What didyou do in the winter time? NE Winter time? Well, we usually raise the dry onion and we harvest them in October to November. And we put that in storage warehouse. And when the cold weather com and everything is over, t~en we go on to dry onion shipping. So we try to - try to keep us busy - not all year long, but oh maybe ten months out of the year. For one year. Sf That's not bad at all. NE WHy, that's theonly way you could do to exist. SF I hear about all these famrers that only have a crop for 6 months and then 6 months, they're idle--- NE Then you might make a few dollars, but during thatperiod, 9u're ct doing anything, you eat up allthat profit. Then you ~art out with nothing again. That's not the way to farm. Even in Utah. But in California, you dent' have that situation· They have farming weeather all year roung, practically.