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Article: Cheap Land, Ample Water Brings Britons to Florida to Grow Watercress.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- November 5, 1999
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Nov. 5 -- MYAKKA CITY, Fla. -- Tomatoes. Oranges. Watercress. ... Watercress? Believe it or not, tucked among the tomato farms and citrus fields that dominate East Manatee County's agricultural landscape is a 500-acre spread that grows watercress.
Englishmen Julian Barter and David Coles run Watercress Farms on Sugarbowl Road in Myakka City, where they raise the green leafy vegetable along with other exotic crops like parsley, spinach, cilantro, arugula and red chard.
The farm, which will begin harvesting its early watercress crop this week, is one of the stops on this year's annual Manatee County Farm-City ...
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