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Harvested in the summer, the broadleaf tobacco is air-dried for at least 60 days in specialized ventilated sheds. Plainville Farm in Hadley is using more than 20 sheds for the 2024 harvest.
While many factors influence the result, mainly how the tobacco tastes when it’s smoked, none are more important than its cultivation, growth, and harvest. Tobacco grown in Nicaragua will taste ...
Thanks to tobacco, it had the means to make money. What was needed, though, were laborers -- laborers to clear fields, to plant and harvest crops. During the 1620s and 1630s, when the price of ...