Like most young hustlers, Darius Cheruiyot of Silibwet, Bomet County has tried his hand in almost everything, from being a mechanic to a driver and a boda boda man. But none of those ventures given ...
EXETER – Three years after portions of its gargantuan, 25-acre metal skeleton first rose over a local farm field, construction of the Schartner greenhouse project has yet to resume as the company ...
It may sound like an oxymoron: a delicious local, winter tomato — especially if you happen to live in a cold climate. But increasingly, farmers from West Virginia to Maine and through the Midwest are ...
EXETER — Tim Schartner walks a field his family has worked for a century, part of the landmark farm that served as a gateway into South County’s bucolic region for generations of Rhode Islanders ...
AN icy mixture of rain and sleet fell on the glass roof of Greenhouse Two at Backyard Farms here, but as its big blue door slid open and the warm, green, celery smell of tomato plants wafted out, it ...
photos by ADAM LAU/NEWS SENTINEL Anthony Carver, Grainger County agricultural extension agent, admires ripe tomatoes at Morgan Farms in Rutledge, Tenn. (Photo: Adam Lau) April and Betty Morgan, from ...
The Netherlands has some of the most efficient greenhouses in the world. Dutch company Looye Kwekers has tomato plants that grow a foot a week with limited water. The Netherlands yields 12 times more ...