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> >  I heard
> recently that in 1950 90% of New York's fresh produce came from New Jersey,
> now 90% comes from California.
> 

That's one reason they called it the Garden State.  A lot of the fresh 
produce for the large eastern cities came from Virginia espcially the 
Shenandoah 
area.  But back then people ate salads made of kale.  Winter vegetables were 
turnips, carrots, cabbage, and the like that with some skill you can harvest 
all 
winter long.

It was just after the turning of the previous century that Clarence Birdseye 
developed a method of shipping refrigerated foods from California.

If the California vegetable farms diminsh significantly because of the lack 
of water, it won't mean not having vegetables (or food in general) but it 
will 
mean that it is a lot more expensive.  The days when a family's food is 8% of 
their budget may be behind us.