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NK Lago Farms, LLC is a small farm in Canal Point, Florida that currently grows bananas on about 5 Acres of land. The business is owned by my wife, Kiley Harper-Larsen and operated by me ,Nicholas Larsen and began growing in January, 2009. The genesis of the enterprise started in our backyard. I am a hobby gardener and an agronomist by trade. I was amazed at how easy it was to produce large quantities of bananas with very little input in our backyard. I did the math and realized that a profit was possible if done on a commercial scale. I started doing background research to try to learn what the best varieties were and what was needed as far as equipment and fertilizer. I told a farmer friend about my plan and he agreed to let me farm 5 acres of his for percent of the returns. I started hunting down tissue culture bananas to start my farm with and 9 months into the venture I have about some variety on my farm. Most of the farm is planted to Dwarf Namwah. I also have some Gran Nain, some Misi Luki, and a cooking banana Kandrian. It's been a lot of work digging all the holes and planting all the plants, unlike most agriculture in the Everglades, bananas are only minimally mechanized.