Connecticut Cigar Tobacco Puts Other Binders In The Shade
There’s no doubt about it. Tobacco farming is tough work, with backbreaking hours in hot conditions. Nobody knows that better than the growers and harvesters of so-called “shade tobacco,” who make possible a multimillion-dollar industry from rural Connecticut.
Eighteen-hour days, with seven-day weeks from spring to early fall, are the lot of the Connecticut shade [...]