area who still raise tobacco. Armando Aguirre sits down to enjoy some lunch in the drying barn among leaves harvested that morning. Growing tobacco is labor-intensive work, requiring about 200 ...

The barns contained a lot of tobacco belonging to Presley Strickland, a cropper of Burr, who is not a member of the Dark Tobacco Growers' Protective Association. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

The Barn Quilts of Carver County project has sparked interest across the county and beyond. Since August, more than a dozen barn quilt “squares” have been on display on barns throughout the ...

Molded Antiques. Bill Krawski, 28, comes from a family of Connecticut tobacco farmers, but five years ago he decided to harvest barns instead of plants. He has stripped 120 barns, including enough ...

Seven-year-old Vera lives in the big city but adores spending the holidays in her grandparent’s town and particularly in their deserted tobacco barn. Nieves, a teenager native from there whose ...

The Media Network on Tobacco (MNT) is urging farmers to embrace the use of Live Barns, locally known as dzigafa za moyo, as they prepare for the upcoming tobacco plucking season. This move is part ...

Three generations spend a summer uncovering the secrets of mysterious tobacco barns dotting the landscape of a small rural town that is at once a childhood playground, a teenage cage and an elder ...