Coping with 250 inches of annual rainfall, the emissions from an active volcano and more slugs per acre than anywhere in the world, Rick Cupples has his work cut out growing fresh market tomatoes. Cupples literally owns a piece of the rock. His smallfarm, near Volcano, Hawaii, is located over a bed of volcanic rock covered with no more than a foot of top soil. Located smack dab in the middle of a rainforest, he purchased the six-acre site in 1985. Later, he cleared two acres of vegetation with a bulldozer and eventually worked himself into growing organic tomatoes for local health food stores.
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