Mulnite Farms

Blog time! Passing threw Windsorville Ct. Huge tobacco history at this farm. Generation after generation working the land. Producing Nursery stock, Tented tobacco and C.t. Broadleaf. Tommy and Lenny are hands on. Year after year Mulnite farms are planting Broadleaf in May and are finished taking tobacco down late September.

The leafs are packaged (bundles).28 to 35 pounds.Moist not wet !!!

Packaged Broadleaf will be packed in a container mid October. Then loaded on a boat. Off to the Dominican. There the leafs will be fermented , sorted leaf by  leaf . Separated into different grades. Then the leafs are rolled on cigars. 

Conditioning Broadleaf is an Art a Science. When tobacco is dry. The shed is rapped in plastic a huge steamer is brought to the out side. The steamer starts men hold the hoses and walk back and forth. 2 to 4 hours later. Men start removing the tobacco layer after layer.Placing moist tobacco into piles.

Putting up plastic is done with Three men and 2 ladders 10' furring strips. A few pounds of double sided nails couple hammers and 3 to 5 hours depending on the wind. Being 20' up on the ladder is no joke. 8 years ago i was on the ladder hanging plastic on a windy day . The Wind gusted behind the plastic .Ladder fell off the shed i let go hit the ground back first . Very stunned couldn't move then after the fall here comes this dam ladder truly like out of a movie. A friend coworker was there to push the ladder just before i hit me. Luck was on my side that day.