POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — For what’s believed to be the first time in Florida, customers can enter a citrus growing structure designed to prevent greening, the disease that has ravaged citrus trees in Florida for two decades.
“Unfortunately, like many other outdoor growers, greening has affected our outdoor groves,” said Katie Bevilacqua, co-owner of Golden Ridge Groves and Market in Alturas.
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Citrus growing is in Bevilacqua’s blood.
She said when her father and uncle retired from growing citrus, then blueberries, they partnered with the University of Florida to tackle greening…