Growing 'finicky' strawberries is tough. Some organic farmers say they're not worth it.
Story Date: 4/11/2018

 

Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 4/10/18

As conventional strawberry farmers around the Triangle worked into the early-morning hours Sunday to protect their crop from a late frost, organic farmer Fred Miller was in bed, sleeping away the cold night. In the past, a frost would have forced Miller and his teenage son to stay up late carefully tucking their plants away from the cold air under tarps at Hilltop Farms in Willow Spring. But this year, for one of the first times in decades, Miller had no berries to protect.

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