The Basement Herb Farm Growing Tastes of Home

Underneath an office building in the Chinatown–International District grows a world of plants.

Moments after I ate one of the buzz buttons—a citrusy daisy relative—Ryan Delaney handed me in his basement farm underneath a Chinatown–International District office building, I asked him to just keep talking until I felt like I would stop drooling. In more than a decade of interviewing people about food, that was a first. On the upside, the numbing effect rid my mouth of the lingering taste of something called fish mint, which tasted nothing of mint. It reminded me of a seafood restaurant dumpster left in the hot sun, but when Delaney takes

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