Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a beautiful Saturday morning in early June, I volunteered at Wilson’s Farm in Brighton Township for an environmental field ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stacy Jones, of Ronald Jones Fernery, stands at his 48-acre fern field Monday. Tons of ice from a hailstorm Sunday collapsed the ...

SEVILLE — For more than a year since they moved to this tiny town in search of work in the fern fields, Alfredo and Maria Albarran lived in a trailer with another family. It was so crowded there was ...

PIERSON — After three storms devastated this community of fern growers, some Hispanic field laborers are packing up and leaving the self-proclaimed fern capital of the world. School officials and ...

A recent Emory University study suggests that fern cutters in northwest Volusia County suffer more heat-related illnesses than fellow farmworkers elsewhere in Central Florida. One potential reason ...

On a beautiful Saturday morning in early June, I volunteered at Wilson’s Farm in Brighton Township for an environmental field study to learn the language of ferns. Though I often noticed copious ...