It Takes How Much Water to Grow an Almond?! California's drought is a disaster for your favorites

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10. Agriculture won't shift locations after one year of drought, or even a few.

Ironically, many of the foods sourced from California year round were once raised at many other locations. For example, Birds-Eye used to have a freezer plant in my town that took in truck load after truck load of green beans during harvest season. Those farms have been out of the bean business for 10 years now. They won't be going back into beans unless they see a long term market trend. There are many small farms raising apples, cherries, strawberries, peaches and blueberries, but I think most of the crop is sold locally during the season.

I will say this - I eat local strawberries almost every day in June but won't touch a berry from California. The local berries taste fantastic, but they are picked at full ripeness, and only keep a few days at best.