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Fresh wasabi is hard to get in the US — unless you live in Oregon
Jennifer Bloeser and Markus Mead of Oregon Coast Wasabi started growing wasabi in the backyard as a shade plant. Now they're one of just four wasabi growers in North America. Says Mead: “Wasabi is light phobic, so it loves the fog in the summer, it loves the rain in the winter, so the Oregon Coast is fairly perfect.”