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This Farmer Credits Homemade 'Hobbit Hole' Greenhouse with Saving Crops From Freeze

Homemade compost-walled greenhouses kept citrus, peaches and tomatoes alive after a freeze that left most Utah fruit farms with nearly total losses, experts said.

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Originally Published: 21 APR 26 15:08 ET By Mythili Gubbi Click here for updates on this story     OGDEN, Utah (KSTU) -- Last week's freezing temperatures hit Utah’s fruit farms hard, with experts saying most lost their entire crop. But one farmer in Ogden credits the produce he thinks he can harvest to his homemade contraption. On Monday, Chad Midgley visited his farm for the first time since the freeze. “It makes me want to cry, it’s really ha…

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