Today I was marveled. I spent several hours inside a 30 acre green house or should I say a series of greenhouses all connected in a mosaic that had to be witnessed to be believed. And the technology was dumbfounding because a greenhouse to me was a hut that felt humid inside I never had a clue that greenhouses have evolved so greatly with not only artificial means of temperature but also its own watering system, artificial lighting for accelerating plant growth and a complex network of trays that made movement of the literally tons of plant material two football lengths with remarkable ease and efficiency. Not to mention the saved visits to the chiropractor and man-hours saved lifting and transporting from one end of the greenhouse to the other.
This firm located on the North Fork of Long Island is one of the largest in the country and what so impressed me was the main architect of the this amazing structure. Here was a young man by any standard who was not only tall in stature but also long on humility and an expertise that he just took for granted. He was so matter of fact about it all and what so impressed me about this man was his sense of values that seemed like he belonged back in a time forgotten.
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