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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally think food shortages are going to be an issue in our lifetime or our children’s.  Currently a ridiculous amount of our food comes from California .. with climate change, fires and droughts, how low can that continue?  And the food coming from other countries?  How long will that continue as they face shortages and political instability?   We need more food grown in lots of different places and ideally closer to home than what we currently have.  I don’t think the MoCo Ag preserve is being super well utilized at the moment but at least it is there if we need to repurpose it.  [/quote]
MD is too cold outside the summer to provide produce year round.  CA is warm enough year round to provide produce, even in the winter.

I grow vegetables and fruit here in the summer, for like 3 maybe 4 months total, and [b]fall fruits only last for like 2 weeks[/b].  I grew tomatoes in CA from early March until November.

-40 year CA resident who misses fresh produce year round.[/quote]

Apples and squashes definitely last for longer than 2 weeks, if you store them properly. And no, Maryland is not too cold outside to provide produce year round. Have you been to farmers' markets?[/quote]
There is no farmers market year round.

And I was referring to picking the fruit off of trees.  The fruit is only ripe for like 2 weeks before they start to become overripe or drop.[/quote]

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