Palm Beach is the jewel in the crown of the largest of Florida’s 67 counties. Outside the urban areas in Palm Beach County, there are 468,000 acres of commercial agriculture. This represents 38 percent of the county’s land mass.
There are about 40 vegetable growers who, during the 2008-09 growing season, produced crops valued at $262 million wholesale. But no major growers operated a retail produce store until recently.
It started with Palm Beach resident Paul Okean, owner of Morning Star Nursery. He grew plants on two tracts of land in the county, one on 50 acres in Delray Beach and the other a 32-acre parcel at Hypoluxo Road and Military Trail.
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Caption: Paul Okean of Palm Beach is one of the owners of Harvest Time Market in Lake Worth.
Credit: Meghan McCarthy, Palm Beach Daily News
