U-pick new school

If you are too old to bend down and pick green beans, the green beans can come to you. Here's a story about a u-pick technology utilized in Florida that may take away some of the charm picking your own produce but adds to the ease.
From the story:

At Hydro-Fresh U-Pick Farms in western St. Lucie County, an innovative tower-style growing system has made the experience dirt-free and taken the bending and kneeling out of picking the berries, beans, tomatoes and herbs.

TK: No soil is used in the hydroponic process, and you know what a new selling point is?

"You cannot get E. coli from Perlite," Bullock said.