The bitter with the sweet: A Texas grapefruit farmer’s organic journey
On a cloudy, damp day in March, the smell of wet earth and fermented fruit hangs thick in the air at South Tex Organics farm in Mission, Texas, as a layer of grapefruit rots on the grove floor. Acres of carefully tended plants dropped their fruit due to the freeze that had swept Texas a few weeks prior, blanketing the ground in plump orbs of sweet citrus now unfit for harvest and sale.The unprecedented – and unpredictable – climate challenges associated with farming are an ongoing reality for th...
