You’ll see how farmers prepare the soil, plant pineapple crowns, and care for the crops over many months until they’re ready for harvest. Discover the techniques used to protect the fruit from ...

There's history to it, and remnants remain today. In the early 1900s, pineapple farms were plentiful from Rockledge to Jensen Beach, and the tropical fruit was shipped across the country by rail.

who attends to his pineapple farm daily to earn a living. From as early as 7:00 am, Nelson can be seen planting pineapple suckers, or reaping the fruit in his backyard located in Simon ...

Jerry Parkes stands in a vast field of spiky leaves and peers at a pineapple that is larger than usual. "Wow, look at the size of this fruit!" he exclaims. A former London investment banker on a ...

At his farms in Hayfield and Castle Hill in St Thomas ... of the fruit from his friend and since then, he began planting pineapple suckers on lands that he had inherited from his parents.

Parkes co-founded Injaro, a private equity fund that invests in agricultural businesses in West Africa such as Gold Coast Fruits, this pineapple farm about 30 miles north of Accra. Did Parkes ...