What Kinds Of Fruits And Vegetables Grow In The San Joaquin Valley?
Posted by admin on February 5, 2010
I need help finding out what fruits and veggies grow in the san joaquin valley. It will be even better if you could include like nuts, oils, and etc that grow there.
Thanks for all your help =D
The major agricultural products of San Joaquin Valley include:
Fruits like cherries, apricots,nectarines, peaches, plums and pluots, not to forget winegrapes ( Fresno is credited as the birthplace of the raisin )
Nuts like walnuts, almonds and pistachios.
Vegetables like asparagus, tomatoes, cauliflower, pumpkins, and dry beans.
Cereals like wheat, barley, and corn,
Safflower > safflower oil
Forage like alfalfa and grass to make hay
Almonds, walnuts (Diamond Co), appricots, peaches, figs, dates, olives, kiwi, oranges, tomatoes (Heinz Co), Lemons, Grapes (Gallo Wines). The Valley is considered the “breadbasket” of the nation. It is approx 700 miles in length and 200 miles wide and has even more products in the southern part. Oils from nuts, sunflowers, etc.