The surprising shifts climate change is bringing to Vermont farms: rice paddies, peaches and saffron

The surprising shifts climate change is bringing to Vermont farms: rice paddies, peaches and saffron

Since 1900, annual temperatures in Vermont have increased by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit, and annual precipitation has increased by 21% over the same span, according to the state.

US (VT): "Backwards spring" helps state strawberry growers

Vermont saw a wetter and cooler than average spring this year, and while many businesses that rely on summer weather bemoaned the rain, strawberry growers in the state welcomed it. Strawberries need about an inch of rain a week, and don't require a tremendous amount of sunny weather, according to Eugenie…

65-YO Proves You Don’t Need Land to Farm: Earns Rs 3.5 Lakh/Month Growing Saffron at Home

Kashmir is known as the world’s second-largest producer of saffron. But far from the valley, the world’s most expensive spice blooms in a tiny room of Ramesh Gera’s house in Noida. In 1980, after pursuing electrical engineering at NIT Kurukshetra, Ramesh worked for several multinational companies for over three decades, as part of which he travelled extensively. “In 2002, I travelled to South Korea for work. During my six-month stay, I learnt ab…