Tag: Nancy Bekemeyer

Winter Garden Family Reinvents Historic Farm

U-Pick Hydroponic Farming Paves Way to Their Future by Kirsten Harrington –  “I vividly remember last January,” said John Bekemeyer, strolling through his family’s 20-acre farm on East Story Road in Winter Garden. “This was all dead orange trees. This was all mud in September. We didn’t even plant strawberries until October.” The nearly century-old…