Seeds of a food safety solution

Watermelon bus retrofit awaits its big break

A customarily blurry photo of melons in Burke County, Georgia on June 29, 2025/ Photo by Hanna Raskin
A customarily blurry photo of melons in Burke County, Georgia on June 29, 2025/ Photo by Hanna Raskin
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It’s hard to get a clear picture of a watermelon bus.

This is literally true. Almost every feature story about former school buses repurposed as fruit haulers for harvests from Florida to Delaware starts with a reporter failing to capture an image of the storybook vehicle rattling down a two-lane highway. Just another summertime blur, albeit one that’s critical to the domestic watermelon supply chain.

 
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