Bet the farm

Unless you need concrete block or gravel, you really have no business driving around in the Fort Myers industrial zone north of Colonial Boulevard off Metro Parkway.

It's not the kind of place where you'd want your car to break down at night. Dump trucks rumble down crumbling roads lined with empty lots and warehouses ringed with high fences, some with barbed wire.

But there's a farm there — a real farm — one called Selovita where 26 employees grow 35,000 pounds of organic vegetables and cultivate 42,000 fish in a dozen giant ponds that look like above-ground swimming pools.