April 25, 2024
Agriculture
Involuntary Servitude
The "company store" model is still a fixture at many northeast Florida farms, say workers advocates.
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Published on 8/1/2005
Java Man
For now, the nine-acre patch under power lines is used only occasionally -- as a garbage dump. But to J.C. Nadeau, it's the future site of Florida's first working coffee plantation.
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Published on 8/1/2005
Growing Concern
Nearly 40 years ago, Barbara Mainster and her late husband, Wendell N. Rollason, moved to Miami to create the Redlands Christian Migrant Association to take migrant farmworkers' children out of the fields and into the classroom.
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Published on 6/1/2005
Cash Crop
When they see oranges and grapefruit on the trees, passers-by sometimes stop by the Crump Family Farm in DeLeon Springs and ask for a tour. Now, west Volusia County tourism officials and farm operators are trying to build on that interest.
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Published on 6/1/2005
Survivors
Some of Florida's oldest businesses are still doing what they did 100 years ago; others changed successfully with the times.
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Published on 5/1/2005
Harvesting History
A Palm Beach County effort reminds residents how important agriculture is to the county.
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Published on 2/1/2005
Sweet and Sour
The Citrus Department faces a setback in its policy of taxing producers to fund advertising.
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Published on 2/1/2005
Agriculture
The economic outlook in 2005 for Florida's citrus growers and the forestry industry.
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Published on 1/1/2005
Law & Orchid
Botanist Meg Lowman rebounds from a furor over a flower.
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Published on 12/1/2004
