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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 17 > Little waste, tall tomatoes at a futuristic greenhouse

Little waste, tall tomatoes at a futuristic greenhouse

Those tomato plants produce 20 times more fruit per acre than ones grown conventionally, meaning such a system may become the new way of doing things

By Jerry Hirsch / The Bulletin
May 17, 2009

CAMARILLO, Calif. — On a coastal plain near Camarillo not far from a U.S. Navy base and an outlet mall, the future of California farming is taking shape.

Rising out of verdant acres of strawberries and artichokes between Highway 101 and the Pacific Ocean are two mammoth, high-tech....

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