Alex Tomato Farm

Sprakers, NY

Alex Kravets’ father, a dentist, started farming in the Ukraine as a hobby. But before long he was running a successful produce business, operating six greenhouses just outside the city and extending the growing season at a time when tomatoes in Eastern Europe were virtually impossible to find until July or August. “These things were valued very highly,” Alex explains, “Nobody was doing what my father was doing, almost everything agricultural was managed by the government.”