chemicals in the strawberry fields

Photo by Jean Vengua

I walk my dog near the strawberry fields by Elkhorn Slough, and the smell of the strawberries is often sweetly overpowering. But what does it take to grow them in such abundance? An article on the use of methyl bromide and methyl iodide in our local strawberry fields, by Melissae Fellet, in the Salinas Californian today.