Ed. — From the Sunday, March 3, print edition. BY JANE BLOODWORTH ROWE VIRGINIA BEACH — I hear a lot of talk about companion planting
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Ed. — From the Sunday, May 14, print edition. BY GLEN MASON BACK BAY — The Pungo Strawberry Festival in Virginia Beach is a destination event
Ed. — From the Sunday, May 22, print edition. BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE — Agriculture, the third-largest industry in Virginia Beach, showed overall significant
Ed. — This story originally ran in the Sept. 6 print edition. THE INDEPENDENT NEWS VIRGINIA BEACH — Over the Labor Day Weekend, well before Hurricane
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE VIRGINIA BEACH — Douglas Munden, a third generation farmer, sat in his office across Princess Anne Road from the home in which
BY JANE BLOODWORTH ROWE PUNGO — This year’s growing season got off to a soggy start with heavy rains that damaged the strawberry crops
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE – Agriculture in Virginia Beach had an estimated $124.6 million economic impact in 2016, an increase of $3.8 million or
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE PUNGO – Dr. Basil Gooden, the state agriculture and forestry secretary, visited Virginia Beach to meet with the city agriculture staff
THE INDEPENDENT NEWS PUNGO —Earlier this summer, before the sweet corn season faded, Winky Henley and Bill Skipper of Skipper Farms traded a few notes
THE INDEPENDENT NEWS LANDSTOWN — On a recent Wednesday evening, people bought local sweet corn during the weekly produce auction at the Virginia Beach Farmers