<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2hP2yV_0uQMrfAL00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2hP2yV_0uQMrfAL00" width="1919" height="1079" ></figure><p>The most delicious strawberry I’ve ever tasted came from my grandparent’s garden, in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was the size of a gummy, looked like a woodland ruby, and tasted like it had grown in the Swiss Alps. The second-best strawberry came from a vertical farm in New Jersey. It was the color of a white nectarine, sweet and delicate, and it was picked by a robot.</p><p>About a 90-minute drive from New York City, near a sprawling field of solar panels, stands a pale-colored building that, just some years ago, was a factory that produced plastics. Today, it grows some of the world’s most expensive strawberries.</p><p>If you’re a frequent patron of Michelin-star restaurants, or if you shop at Whole Foods on the East Coast, you may have heard of the company Oishii. Oishii, meaning “delicious” in Japanese, first made headlines in 2021 for its outrageously expensive Omakase strawberries, which at the time cost $50 for a tray of eight. Since then, the cost has dropped to $11-15 depending on the retailer, due in large part to Oishii scaling up its farming operations.</p></div></body>

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Inside the high-tech farm in New Jersey where Instagram’s favorite strawberries grow

The most delicious strawberry I’ve ever tasted came from my grandparent’s garden, in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was the size of a gummy, looked like a woodland ruby, and tasted like it had grown in the Swiss Alps. The second-best strawberry came from a vertical farm in New Jersey. It was the color of a white nectarine, sweet and delicate, and it was picked by a robot.