Central California – Garden Basket of America

When we visited central California in 2009 I was expecting to see many vegetable fields but not as big as what I found. The picture above is of an artichoke field of probably 3,000 acres. I never imagined that many artichokes were even consumed by us.  Without California we would be restricted to fresh veggies only while they are in season. The California vegetable fields are very American….