Farmers in California are pivoting to frost-sensitive and heat-tolerant crops as temperatures rise with climate change introducing some new and unfamiliar fruits and other foods to the state, including mangoes, cherimoya, dragonfruit, white sapote, coffee and more.
In a world of worsening heatwaves, flooding, drought, glacial melting, megafires and other calamities of a changing climate, Gary Gragg is an optimist. As California.
The future of farming in California is changing as the planet warms, altering the rain and heat patterns that guide which crops are grown where. “We’re adjusting for survival,” one grower said.