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Liked your take on local Northern European diet. I live in the south end of the California Central Valley, a local sustainable diet would be winter wheat, chickpeas, fava beans, garlic and other cool season vegetables grown in the rainy winter, with olives, figs, grapes, citrus, stone fruits, nuts grown to some extent at the base of the foothills of the Sierras with irrigation drawn from the snow pack melt off. Apples and pears could grow higher up. Cattle, sheep, goats would be grazing in the foothills and mountains and on crop residues to provide meat and dairy. However the enormous production enabled currently by pumping groundwater wouldn’t be happening.

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Yes, agriculture would become an art, a craft, a relationship instead of an impersonal industrial process.

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