[Travis McGee]

You’ve got a point, for sure. But what arable land as exists is not “inside the beltway” anywhere I know.

[muawiyah]

look, i'm about 1 mile South of the Beltway ~ and I can go over there and find people with HUGE GARDENS and rear lots groaning with peaches, apples and pears every year.

All of our hispanics grow peppers, and the Vietnamese grow several vegetables all the time ~ inside and outside. I have a two story greenhouse myself so if i needed i could produce pretty much everything but bananas.

Suburban neighborhoods are big into gardening ~

Tomatoes were not good this year because we had too much dry air ~ even this area was in drought much of the summer. We are DOWN half a dozen hurricanes.