Posted on 01/28/2025 8:40:56 PM PST by Kevin in California
So I moved from the liberal infested bay area California 4 months ago and out into a semi rural (Trump country) area of California. I bought a big home with 1.5 acres. I need some fruit and shade trees so I went to website that sells fast growing trees and when I tried adding cherry trees, peach trees, and apricot trees to my shopping cart, a message pops up saying they're unable to ship to California due to agricultural restrictions. This is such BS.
“It’s because they don’t want to aciddent import various blights and diseases that could wipe out the local orchards.”
Right. These are not new regulations. RThey’ve been around for decades. Does California still have inspections at the state line where they ask travelers if they have any fruits or vegetables? I remember that when we travelled there in the ‘60s.
It used to be an agricultural state until they cut off the water. Look at all the dead almond and avocado orchards in the Central Valley.
I moved to Camarillo in 1994/95 and they were spraying for medfly every night. I remember one night I left my window open and freaked out because I woke up to the helicopters going overhead. They had found one fly in one of the orchards and sprayed for a few months.
I guess you have never heard of agriculture inspection tonight stations.
They’re available...both the old ones and the new resistant breeds.
Those low-flying helicopters thundered and shook the whole house. People were outraged by it, but they went ahead and eradicated the MedFly. I don’t recall any reports of short-term or long-term health effects from the malathion spraying.
We had bug traps on our property for a while. We left Palo Alto in ‘83 and moved nearby. We had a bug trap on our property in summer ‘24, too. They are always monitoring for invasive pests.
If you mostly want to cover and fill a bare patch of land, and are not too picky about aesthetics, Bamboo can be hardy and very useful.
Send to a friend in a nearby state and go pick up.
I worked in Rancho Bernardo (north of San Diego) for about a year and our office building had orange trees in the courtyard. When they were ripe I’d go out at 3PM every day and get a couple. They were awesome right off the tree.
There are still California Plant Inspection Stations on I-10 West of the Colorado River crossing and I-8 West of Yuma.
I had a similar problem looking to buy 20 additional 30-round mags for several of the family’s long guns...
Everything was fine until, at the online checkout, I was notified that MD says “no”...
So, I had to drive across a state line to get those particular Christmas presents for the grandkids and great-grandkids...
This one is not BS. California has to date successfully avoided several common agricultural pests by tightly controlling imports.
I hear African princess, Mayor Adams, is going on a tax-paid junket to Sub-Sahara Africa——
to Nigeria. She is tasked with bringing hair-relaxers to primitive natives as a goodwill gesture.
As for Newsome, he’s staying home. Now that he facilitated LA fires destroying homes, possessions, businesses, livelihoods, Newsom is on a “rescue mission” for smelt—a
(gasp) endangered form of trout———b/c “losing that last population of fish” takes priority over humans losing everything.
Newsom has fish and wildlife protected up the kazoo. Homo sapiens are on their own.
<><>Newsom employs about 5,300 workers in conservation and wildlife protection
<><>a paltry 570 staff Newsom’s fire agency’s wildland management.
All who are advising bypassing the restrictions on importing the trees and other plants are just WRONG.
Importing non-native plants,animals,DISEASES and INSECTS never works out well.
The easy thing to do is to find the nearest place in maybe Nevada or Arizona (or Oregon if you’re that far north) which might have them and purchase them in person, then rent a large vehicle and drive them home.
I doubt the staties and county mounties are looking for agricultural products on the highways.
You moved from one place in Cali to another place in Cali and somehow thought it would be different? I think I see the problem.
We used to pick peaches in Palmdale. But that was forty years ago. I don’t know if any orchards remain. You could probably get some cuttings there.
There are agricultural inspection stations on all the big highways into California to prevent exactly this. Try it and they will confiscate your trees.
I and my ex drove to Cali in 1982. They took her fruit. Now they have fruits in charge.
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