As North Carolina warms, one farm is turning to a tropical crop: Taro

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By Lina TranJul 5, 2022, 10:45 am203 pts
The first time Chris Smith tried to grow taro on his experimental farm in western North Carolina, the plants were too eager. He’d started them in a heated greenhouse one February day a few years ago, thinking the tropical crop would need plenty of time to establish. Within a month, the taro had sprung up a…

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