Within days, troops were hacking down contaminated fields of tomato vines with machetes.
— Mark Van Horn, director of the student farm at the University of California, is nearly lost as he walks through a yellow cloud of wild sunflowers around the edge of a field of tomatoes and sweet corn.
Camp Caimanes near this town seems a microcosm of Mexico's dark side, a shantytown of 2,000 people at the edge of a field of tomatoes where residents take relief from the heat in the brown-green water of a canal; where children, exhausted after a day at work in the fields, never protest bedtime; and where drug abuse has increasingly become the most popular form of recreation.
Year round the patches of mixed colors fill a small portion of the 300-acre McGrath family farm in Camarillo, which includes sprawling fields of berries, tomatoes and other organic plants.
Stretching literally as far as the eye can see are fields upon fields of lettuce, tomatoes, almonds, rice, grapes, wheat and artichokes.
Manteca farmer Robert Godfrey irrigates his fields of #corn, #tomatoes and #carrots with water from the #stanislausriver.
Livestock graze in pastures, and fields of watermelon and tomatoes bake in a climate that is faultlessly Mediterranean.
Surrounding the airport are fields of lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, corn and bedding plants, crops that can be taken into Detroit and to farmers' markets.
On a remote 750-acre site near the Everglades, Ave Maria University, the nation's first new Roman Catholic university in four decades, is about to rise from the fields of peppers and tomatoes that stretch to the horizon.
