Английская Википедия:Backyard Farms
Backyard Farms is a Madison, Maine-based agricultural company specializing in massive greenhouses to produce vine-ripened tomatoes.[1] It had been owned by Devonshire Investors, a Boston-based branch of Fidelity Investments[2] but was sold in June 2017 to a Canadian produce company, Mastronardi Produce of Ontario.[3]
History
The company was started in 2004.[1][4] In 2007, the company's first Шаблон:Convert greenhouse was built in Madison, Maine, making it the largest building by volume in the state.[1] It covers the area of 20 football fields. The 240,000 plants grow up to 10 feet tall and are projected to yield 1 million tomatoes each week.[5] Their second greenhouse, connected to the first, was built in 2009. The combined area was then Шаблон:Convert.[1] Plants are grown in rock wool and pollinated by bumblebees that are kept inside the greenhouses.[2] Rainwater that sheds off the greenhouse roofs is recycled to supplement the water used to irrigate the plants.[6]
Although the tomatoes originally had been a specialty variety called "Backyard Beauty", they had been replaced with other, undisclosed varieties.[2] There had been plans for the operation to expand to include peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, herbs, and strawberries.[7]
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