It’s the year of the tomato for five school districts

"At 11 a.m., September 2 it was already 92 degrees inside the new high tunnel at Washburn High School. Big Beefs, Jet Stars and Sun Sugars glistened in the morning sunlight. A thick heat poured through the plastic walls.

'It's hard to believe a year ago this entire area was a tennis court,' said Levens with a sweeping arc of her arm pointing both inside and outside the tunnel. 'Now it's a rain garden, a high tunnel and a pollinator garden.'"

By: Hope McLeod, for the Bayfield County Journal. Read the full article here.