Farmers who diversify their land earn more than twice as much income as farmers who don’t. That’s one of the lines that jumped out at me in a recent Orlando Sentinel article “Farmers Find New Cash Crops.“
Then there’s this question: What’s Florida’s largest cash crop? I’d have answered citrus. But the right answer is greenhouse plants.
Among those farmers introduced in the piece is Gene Evans who is using Epcot Center technology to try to raise sturgeon and their delectable caviar on a portion of his farm. The rest of his 1,700 acres support corn, timber and cattle.
But what’s really fascinating about the Evans experiment is that he’s attempting a “zero waste” water recycling operation…in which overflow can be used to irrigate the cornfields…that in turn are meant to produce food for the cattle.
I’m intrigued. Skeptical. But intrigued.
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