Posted on 12/24/2016 12:15:54 PM PST by EveningStar
Food scientists at Cornell University have produced a strain of broccoli that thrives in hot environments, which may make it possible for states with stiflingly hot summers to grow the vegetable. California, where cool coastal fog is perfect for growing standard broccoli, currently produces more than 90 percent of the broccoli grown in the United States. If California were to disappear, what would the American diet be like?
Expensive and grainy. California produces a sizable majority of many American fruits, vegetables, and nuts: 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic, 89 percent of cauliflower, 71 percent of spinach, and 69 percent of carrots (and the list goes on and on). Some of this is due to climate and soil. No other state, or even a combination of states, can match California's output per acre. Lemon yields in California, for example, are more than 50 percent higher than in Arizona. California spinach yield per acre is 60 percent higher than the national average. Without California, supply of all these products in the United States and abroad would dip, and in the first few years, a few might be nearly impossible to find. Orchard-based products in particular, such as nuts and some fruits, would take many years to spring back.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Sauerkraut
I grow broccoli and a dozen other garden vegetables, plus I have peach and apple trees. I also grow beef and venison.
I am willing to take that chance.
Look at all the hand-wringing. Do they think we’ve forgotten how to grow vegetables in the rest of the country?
Up a rope, Salon.
Cali would fold if it couldn’t sell to the rest of the country. Hell, it’s folding already.
Gimme a break.
Yeah, thank California for the fruits and nuts.
—Orange County,CA
It’d be nice if we could get some assist in breaking the massive leftist voter fraud and illegal alien voter registration drives here in Cali.
Most of us aren’t leftard. It’s the fraud that makes it appear so.
And don’t forget, the leftards never leave well enough alone. Let them have Cali and they’ll only locust their way to your own places and start doing it all over again.
If we don’t win here, you also loose wherever you are.
Oh, dear. We’ll be reduced to eating fried grasshoppers!
I don’t think anyone doubt’s CA ability to produce fruits and vegetables or how it’s a significant percentage of total output. I, for one, do get a little tired of the Snowflake whining that seems to come from a lot of participation-trophied people in CA. The fact that they elected Moonbeam again as their governor says volumes. Personally, I’d be willing to sacrifice a little broccoli if they’d just stop whining about the election.
Several conifers have been considered as candidates for “Annedda”, which was the source for a miraculous cure for scurvy in Jacques Cartier’s critically ill crew in 1536. Vitamin C was responsible for the cure of scurvy and was obtained as an Iroquois decoction from the bark and leaves from this “tree of life”, now commonly referred to as arborvitae. Based on seasonal and diurnal amino acid analyses of candidate “trees of life”, high levels of arginine, proline, and guanidino compounds were also probably present in decoctions prepared in the severe winter. Arbor Vitae
Maybe local growers who make thin skinned tomatoes that are actually edible will make a come back. Same for peaches and pears. Hell a California peach if thrown correctly could be used as a lethal weapon.
yes
>>Do they think we’ve forgotten how to grow vegetables in the rest of the country?
Worse than that. They seem to think that vegetables can’t be grown in the rest of the country. Of course, they think that car exhausts and cow farts will cause the planet to be flooded just before it bursts into flame.
I am positive we can live w/o kalifornia fruits and nuts..........;)
Hint: your next "sanctuary city" will be Tijuana, Ensenada and points south.
Follow the money !
Our farm grows organic and gets double the price from greeny Californians. We then donate to conservative causes.
I eat beef, ice cream and chocolate .
Yes
I’ll trade 55 Electoral votes for broccoli any day of the week.
Just because they leave the Union does not mean we quit buying from them.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.