farm life
In Puyallup, Rhubarb Grows on the Dark Side
A Puyallup farmer is growing winter rhubarb indoors, in the dark—and the results are remarkable
Forget the pie—when Tim Richter was a kid, he’d peel the skin off ruby rhubarb stalks, straight from the field, and pour sugar down the scooped center. “That was it,” he says. “That was our Sour Patch [Kids]!” Today, the fourth-generation farmer doesn’t eat nearly as much rhubarb as you might expect, considering his family…