Hot Topic—Fire-Cured Tobacco Farming in Tennessee | Jennifer Davis | Box Press Ep. 123

Learn about the sweat equity that goes into fire-curing tobacco for cigars. See baby tobacco plants grow and mature. And hear how a tobacco plant becomes cigar ready in this field trip to a tobacco farm on the central northern border of Tennessee with cigar connoisseur Rob Gagner and Tennessee realtor/historian Jennifer Davis.

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00:00 This is Box Press

00:17 How tobacco seeds are started

00:30 What do tobacco seeds look like?

00:38 How do you plant tobacco?

00:49 Staking fresh tobacco leaves

01:21 See inside a fire-cured tobacco barn in Tennessee

03:05 Every piece of wood holds generations of memories

03:56 You're not a man until you've had a man's **** in your face

04:17 See where tobacco was processed and auctioned off

05:45 Loose leaf floors are now full of antiques bought with tobacco money