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A farmer said he would not cultivate cannabis - even if it becomes legal. Roger Pacheco said the plant was very delicate and unsuitable for outside growth in Bermudian weather conditions. He predicted commercial growers would have to construct purpos...

A bid to introduce vertical farming to Bermuda has yet to bear fruit – but the Government said discussions continued. The Government earlier announced that a proposal would go before the Cabinet Committee for Economic Development last November. But W...

Farmers handed out free fresh broccoli to the public yesterday. JaVaughn Dill, of Dill Pickles Farming, said he had taken to Facebook to publicise the produce giveaway, donated to him by Pacheco Farms. The broccoli was fresh – but would have been pas...

A vertical farm could produce almost one third of Bermuda’s demand for leafy greens – the equivalent of 200 acres of farmland, it was revealed today. Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office minister, said the state-of-the-art farm could also reduce the cos...

A farmer’s mission to see “mini-farming” adopted in Bermuda had yet to be fully embraced before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. But interest in Chris Faria’s “grow biointensive” method of farming has blossomed as people begin to take responsibility for th...