St. Cloud Times – Snow still covered the ground when Jeff Skalicky ’95 visited a Villard farm for work in March 1998.
At the time Jeff was nicknamed “Banker” — his father Norm is the longtime Stearns County Bank CEO.
“We walked inside the greenhouse and it blew my mind,” Jeff recalls. “It was full of beautiful plants with big huge tomatoes on them.”
The farm he visited used hydroponic technology, which grows plants in mineral solutions instead of soil. The greenhouses are also climate controlled to grow the vegetables at optimal temperatures and speed up harvest.
Read more: http://www.sctimes.com/story/life/food/2015/07/20/tomato-king-reigns-hydroponic-technology/30412757/
