Hot Topic—Fire-Cured Tobacco Farming in Tennessee | Jennifer Davis | Box Press Ep. 123
Box Press · Boveda Inc.
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Show Notes
Learn about the sweat equity that goes into fire-curing tobacco for cigars. See baby tobacco plants grow and mature. And hear how a tobacco plant becomes cigar ready in this field trip to a tobacco farm on the central northern border of Tennessee with cigar connoisseur Rob Gagner and Tennessee realtor/historian Jennifer Davis.
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00:00 This is Box Press
00:17 How tobacco seeds are started
00:30 What do tobacco seeds look like?
00:38 How do you plant tobacco?
00:49 Staking fresh tobacco leaves
01:21 See inside a fire-cured tobacco barn in Tennessee
03:05 Every piece of wood holds generations of memories
03:56 You're not a man until you've had a man's **** in your face
04:17 See where tobacco was processed and auctioned off
05:45 Loose leaf floors are now full of antiques bought with tobacco money