I used to work part-time at a food cooperative in Portland, Oregon, and the produce manager there used to place bets with volunteers that every week they could find something on his small but mighty produce display that they had never eaten before.  This was the kind of bet you make because you know the odds (or because you order the produce, and you know the farmers.)  This was a real  point of pride– and illustrative of the amazing diversity of farming going on in Oregon.  That produce rack introduced me to watermelon radishes, lemon cucumbers, gold beets, countless strange looking summer squash, and some incredible tomatoes I later grew myself in Oregon. But it got me thinking, since I sometimes find myself afraid…