Photo: G. Pascal Zachary
These workers are bundling cut flowers into attractive bouquets that will then be flown from Nairobi to Europe and North America. “Some of the flowers were bound for a Kroger’s grocery store in Cincinnati,” says Zachary. Similar facilities exist to export fresh vegetables like green beans and specialty potatoes, he adds. “They’re already packaged and bar-coded, so after they land they can go right onto the store shelf.”















G. Pascal Zachary
is the author of Bush’s biography, Endless Frontier (1997), and the editor of The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush (Columbia University Press, 2022). He has taught at Stanford University, UC-Berkeley and Arizona State University.
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