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]
When it was built three years ago, the company's first 24-acre greenhouse in Madison was already the largest building in Maine. This second connected greenhouse, completed last year, brought the total area under glass to some 42 acres, or roughly the size of 32 football fields. Even in the depths of winter, a million tomatoes ripen indoors to harvest each week, snipped from their vines by workers in T-shirts and shorts. ...
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