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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New-. Staff Writer
Mow’d you like to extern! your expected life span three times beyond the normal and on top of that, spend your days in cir conditioned elegance witVi ‘servants' to attend to your every need? If it sounds appealing, find a way to turn yourself into a tomato and hitch a ride to Wit and Dorothy Kuncewicz’s hydroponic greenhouse outside of Flint Hill.
The Kuncewicz’s have freed their agricultural enterprise from dependency on the whims of weather and the fragile few inches of top soil. Behind their barns, paddocks and hay fields, they have constructed two enormous green houses where they are raising row upon row of hydroponic tomatoes.
"It’s a logical extension of a natural process," Wit explained. "It's nothing new. The tomatoes are sun ripened on the vine and grown exactly the way Mother Nature demands for the best results."
The greenhouses are constructed of clear plastic material that allows the sun's rays through. Two large fans at one end of the building keep air circulating and the temperature constant, while a
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