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A slightly more up-beat version: A single county in Pennsylvania grows 50% of the mushrooms in the United States. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/this-smal
by ryanworl 8y ago
A slightly more up-beat version: A single county in Pennsylvania grows 50% of the mushrooms in the United States.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/this-small-pennsylvania-region-produces-half-the-mushroom-crop-in-the-u-s https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/this-small-pennsylvania-...
- TulliusCicero 8y agoThis is really interesting, thanks for sharing.
- techiferous 8y agoAnd > 90% of America's wild blueberries come from Washington County, Maine.
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- toomanybeersies 8y agoAnother interesting geographically focused product is rhubarb and the 9 square mile Rhubarb Triangle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb_Triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb_Triangle At one point they grew 90% of the worlds forced rhubarb (a special kind of rhubarb grown indoors).
- twic 8y agoYou and dreen should start a Rhubarb Fact Club: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17118067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17118067
- Grue3 8y agoWeird that rhubarb is native to Russia and yet I've never seen it commercially grown there. My folks had a few plants grown in our ogorod, and made a delicious drink out of it. But now that I live in the city, I don't see any rhubarb jelly or drinks in the supermarkets.