Around here, if you want an orange or a lemon, you'll have to go to the grocery store— unless you visit the Barkley farm just outside Baker, Montana. They're growing citrus fruits like lemons, limes, oranges and even peaches in their year-round greenhouse and proving agriculture in southeast Montana can go beyond wheat and barley. Thirteen-year-old Haddie Barkley doesn't mind getting her hands dirty.
"That's an earthworm," she said, picking it up from the dirt. And worms: they're her specialty.
"I am the worm expert," she laughed. There are three kinds of worms in this soil: red wigglers, European nightcrawlers and earthworms.
"They make the soil healthy, they break down matter, and they're just like, all in all, that help the plants survive better," explained Haddie.
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