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Bringing our customers the highest quality organic tomatoes is a team effort at Long Wind Farm, with each employee playing an important role in the process.  The plants require almost constant attention and care to insure their health and productivity.  They must be diligently pruned and lowered on the trellis system as they grow.  This vital work is performed by a highly-skilled team of plant-workers  who can always be found among the tomato plants, often riding high atop their electric elevator carts (see photo top left) as they travel up and down the pipe rail system that runs between each growing bed.  Once the tomatoes have ripened they are harvested by our picking crew.  This is also a skilled job because it requires a very good eye for color.  At Long Wind Farm we don't just call our tomatoes vine-ripened, they really are vine-ripened.  It is important for the pickers to know which tomatoes are ready to be harvested and which ones require more time to ripen for the best flavor.  Like the plant-workers, these harvesters travel along the pipe rail system on picking carts (see photo on right) and collect the tomatoes in stackable boxes to be transported to the packing shed for grading and packaging.   <Last page]   1  -  2  -  3   [Next page>