Growing IN THE EVERGLADES
By Corey Darnell, Videographer and Graphic Designer
LEWIS POPE III, OWNER OF POPE FARMS, is a thirdgeneration farmer in the Everglades Agricultural Area in the South Florida region. His agricultural enterprise produces sweet corn, green beans, sugarcane and cabbage. Pope Farms is located in Pahokee, near the southeastern side of Lake Okeechobee. Pope’s grandfather began farming in the area in the early 1930s. Pope Rows of corn at the family’s farm.
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started working on his grandfather’s operation at a very young age and then became fully involved when he was 19 years old. It was shortly after he became involved on
the farm that he joined his county Farm Bureau. Pope began as a member of the Western Palm Beach County Farm Bureau in his early twenties.
