Humble Pie
I unpacked my CSA Box yesterday and at the bottom, under a head of lettuce, a bunch of spinach, and a bunch of collard greens was a 1/2 filled pint basket of Strawberries. 7 berries to be exact.
After a quick run to the side of the house to make sure my strawberries weren’t also in need of picking I had to call the farm and figure out what exactly was going on. Turns out that a farm in Oxnard they exchange produce with has strawberries coming in due to the winterless winter so they sent some up. As my CSA had run out of the promised avocados, they gave the shorted boxes strawberries. 7 little strawberries. Just enough for Lil’ Dude’s lunch tomorrow.
So, I’m still right. WE (the SF Bay area) do not get strawberries until April. But, thanks to global warming and Southern California winters with an average temp of 70, you can get organic strawberries in March.
And that should scare us.
I agree that it’s scary. Everyone is enjoying the “mild” winter and the summer consequences are going to be brutal.
I’m simultaneously hoping and not hoping that this is an exaggeration of what’s been happening here where we’ll get lots of rain in late spring, have a cool summer and a summer like fall ONLY because we so desperately need the rain. Ideally we’ll go back to the Mediterranean weather my part of the country is known for.