I agree with Justa! As I said on the other thread, I think that they were pulling the reporter’s leg. I guess, given the care, anybody can grow just about anything anywhere. Doesn’t mean it will be profitable, or very pretty. I just thought it was funny.
BTW, my daughter is a music teacher in a private school in VA. In a new twist on the curriculum, she gave her 8th graders an assignment to write a term paper on 3 styles of music with footnootes, resources, etc. She was grading papers at my house when my husband was in the hospital in Jan and she read one paper to me. (A lot of kids did not take this assignment seriously since their previous music teacher had expected very little from them.) An 8th grade boy wrote that “Jazz is a style of music that slaves developed while raising cotton outside of Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s.”
After we both picked ourselves up off of the floor from laughing, she wrote a comment and gave him a grade (not a very good one). But that kid got a higher grade than the ones in the class who copied their papers (at least 3) directly from Wikipedia.
Who knew about the slaves picking cotton in Chicacago in the 20th century?
Goodness gracious! That was a funny story.