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