eager for me to taste the Tokyo Bekana he's been growing. The leafy green Chinese cabbage, he tells me, is packed with all of the flavor of mustard greens without the spice. We're walking along the garden path of the North County Agricultural Education Center in Pine Lawn toward Lang's hoop house, where the cabbage is growing. As we pass garden beds packed with collard greens and interplanted with basil—which repels insects—Lang chats about what he's been able to grow this season: peppers, peaches, apples, pears, sage, garlic, chives. Potatoes are a sore subject this year, but this is the garden's third
