Hydroponic growing allows Airlie Hills Family Farm to keep berries ripe into fall

By Matt Neznanski
Gazette-Times reporter

By September, most summer strawberries are just a memory.

But at Airlie Hills Family Farm north of Corvallis, the berries are ripe and sweet all the way until October.

Using a hydroponic system, Aaron Kennel keeps plants producing from early spring until late in the fall.