There’s liquid gold in them okra pods

Tessa Desmond wasn’t getting married last fall, but her coworkers could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. The director of The Seed Farm, a 3.5-acre plot for community-engaged agricultural research at Princeton University, had filled her office with hundreds of small gossamer bags, the kind a couple might stuff with tchotchkes and send home with their guests.

But instead of candles or matchbooks, each bag held finger-length pods harvested from one of the nearly 2,000 okra plants which flourished  on the farm that summer.