Versailles Farms: Working `simpatico with the land´
(WorldNews Business)

Equipped with a contraption featuring four torches steered by a single wheel, Stephen McMenamin targeted any invaders challenging his future spinach buds with flames spewing 1,500 degrees of heat. `The problem with growing in dirt is that there are a ton of weed seeds,` the Greenwich restaurant owner-turned-French intensive farmer said while pushing the Flame Weeder over his newly planted crops at Versailles Farms. In 2012, McMenamin and his wife Ingrid Delson bought the property adjacent to their backcountry Greenwich home. The following year, they sold their Greenwich Avenue restaurant renowned for its pastries and celebrity sightings to focus on endeavors including the farm. ......