A Farm Grows in Tampa
At most farms, you hear nothing but the sounds of birds chirping, cows mooing and the occasional whir of light machinery.
But at Tampa’s Meacham Urban Farm, the predominant soundtrack is the whooshing of passing cars from the nearby I-275, neighbors calling to each other across the street and sirens streaking by as emergency vehicles race to their next call.
Joe Dalessio points out that restaurants in larger cities up the Eastern Seaboard and on the West Coast are more used to working closely with local farmers. It’s one area where Florida overall and Tampa specifically lags a bit, but he’d...