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Oral History of Sister Gail Grimes
Tags: A. Duda & Sons; African Americans; agricultural labor; agriculture; alligators; Ann Kendrick; Apopka; Apopka City Council; bass; bass fishing; Bonita Springs; boycotts; Cape Canaveral; carrot houses; carrots; Cesar Chavez; César Estrada Chávez; citrus; City of Apopka; Crealdé School of Art; discrimination; Dowdell v. City of Apopka; E & J Gallo Winery; farms; Farmworker Association of Florida; farmworkers; ferneries; fernery; Gail Grimes; gators; Germans; Haitians; Hispanics; Hope CommUnity Center; Immokalee; Jared Muha; juice plants; kale; KKK; Ku Klux Klan; laborers; Lake Apopka; Lake County; Latinas; Latinos; lettuce; lupus; Mexican Americans; Mexicans; muck farms; Museum of the Apopkans; nonprofits; nuns; nurseries; nursery; Office for Farmworker Ministry; orange county; orange groves; oranges; pesticide exposure; pesticides; Peter Schreyer; Pierson; Plymouth; Plymouth Citrus Products Cooperative, Inc.; Polk County; POW; POWs; Prisoner of War; Prisoners of War; race relations; racial conflict; racism; radish; radishes; religious sisters; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholicism; Roman Catholics; segregation; service learning; SLE; soldiers; Stomping Ground; systemic lupus erythematosus; The Last Harvest; turpentine; Vietnam War; wages; Walt Disney World Resort; William Donald Borders; Willis V. McCall; Willis Virgil McCall; Winter Garden; Winter Garden City Council; Winter Park; World War II; WWII
Program of the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District, 1963
Tags: abandoned flowing wells; agricultural development; agriculture; artesian water; beans; beef cattle; birds; Black Hammock; cabbage; carrots; celery; Charles A. Wales; chlorides; citrus; conservation; corn; cropland; drainage; egg production; Elbert Cammack; environmental protection; erosion; farmers; farming; flowing wells; Geneva; industrial development; irrigation; Jack Dodd; Lake Harney; Lake Jessup; Lake Monroe; lakes; land development; land use; leguminous cover crops; lettuce; livestock; nemeatodes; overgrazing; pasture development; ponds; poultry; poultry farms; Puzzle Lake; Ralph Hammond; recreation; recreational land; row crops; Sanford; Sanford Junior High School; Seminole County; Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District; soil; Soil and Conservation Service; soil depletion; SSCD; SSWCD; St. Johns River; streams; U.S. Department of Agriculture; USDA; vegetables; W. W. Linz; water; water control; Wells; wildlife; wind
Charles Simeon Lee on Lettuce Farm in Black Hammock
Tags: agriculture; Black Hammock; C. S. Lee; Charles Simeon Lee; farms; laborers; lettuce; Oviedo; workers
A to Z: Zellwood Drainage and Water Control District Brochure
Tags: agriculture; Arch Hodges; bean; Beauclair Canal; Belle Glade; cabbage; celery; chemical; Connecticut Mutual; corn; crop; Crop Reporting Service; Dalton Harrison; drainage; employee; endive; escarole; Everglades; Everglades Experiment Station; expenditure; farm; farmer; farming; fertilize; fish; fisheries Division; fishing; Florida Agricultural Extension Service; Florida Humus Company; Florida Legislature; Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; George B. Hills; government; Henry Swanson; infrastructure; John F. White; labor; Lake and Stream Survey; Lake Apopka; Lake County; Lake Jem; legislative branch; legislature; lettuce; muck; Oakland; peat; pesticide; pollution; R. V. Allison; radish; rainfall; recharge; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; RFC; Richard Whitney; snap bean; soil; spending; spinach; state government; sweet corn; tax; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; U.S. Department of Agriculture; U.S.. Geological Survey; USDA; vegetable; vegetation; W. T. Cox; wage; water; water quality; worker; Zellwood Drainage and Water Control District; Zellword
Farm Statistics, Orange County, 1904
Tags: agriculture; bean; cabbage; cantaloupe; cassava; celery; corn; cucumber; English pea; farm; farming; field pea; fruit; fruit industry; hay; Irish potato; lettuce; native grass; oat; orange county; pea; pepper; potato; rice; Seminole County; strawberries; strawberry; sugar; sugarcane; sweet potato; sweet potatoes; syrup; tomato; U.S. Census of Agriculture; vegetable; vegetable industry; velvet bean; watermelon
Acreage of Principle Crops, Seminole County, 1924
Corporate Farming: How Chase & Company Has Grown Into a Dominant Force in Florida Agri-Business
Tags: agribusiness; agriculturalist; agriculture; Belle Glade; building; Building Materials Department; cabbage; cabbage industry; celery; celery industry; Chase and Company; Chase, Sydney Octavius; citrus; Citrus Department; citrus grove; citrus industry; construction; corn; corn industry; corporate farm; corporate farming; corporation; crop; distribution; distributor; escarole; escarole industry; farm; farming; fertilizer; Fertilizer and Garden Supply Department; fertilizer industry; fruit; fruit industry; garden supply; grove; grower; growing; harvest; insurance; insurance industry; lettuce; lettuce industry; manufacturer; manufacturing; marketing; nursery; orange; orange industry; packing; packing house; packing industry; Sanford; shipping; sweet corn; vegetable; Vegetable Department; vegetable industry; warehouse; warehousing; wholesale; wholesaler; Zellwood