It started as a Frenship High School student's question on Google: How can I grow carrots better? Eight years later, the now Texas Tech graduate student has become fluent in the language of plants and mushrooms.
Ethan Carter, owner of E3 Farms in Wolfforth, started his backyard garden after his family moved from Houston. E3 officially began in 2016 when he was 14 years old. "I got into all this by Googling how to grow carrots better, and that led me into growing things on purpose and intensively," Carter said. "I realized I like plants, and I like growing a lot of them."
Between three greenhouses, rows of outdoor crops, an indoor microgreens space, and a separate building for mushrooms, Carter's family business offers more than 20 different types of produce.
"Since then, I've ran it with the help of my family," Carter said. "We've built it out from there, slowly adding to it. We started with salad greens and root vegetables, then added microgreens, greenhouses for tomatoes and peppers."
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