I once read there are dozens of good banana variants for eating and growing, but in the north we usually have seen at most three of them, sometimes plantains and sometimes the mini ones, and what we consider regular ones.
There is a lot of market room for all sorts of fruits, the tropics and subtropics has an incredible diversity of fruits that the north is unfamiliar with, and locals could together in a cooperative and with partners in the US make regional markets for those fruits in the US, cutting out the big corporations.
There were a couple of brothers from san francisco that did that with acacia berries I think they were called according to an article in an old new yorker.
But fruit is just the tip of the iceberg, there is a wealth of other plants with many uses that could be traded with the north here, we need a forum to work out deals.
I once read there are dozens of good banana variants for eating and growing, but in the north we usually have seen at most three of them, sometimes plantains and sometimes the mini ones, and what we consider regular ones.
There is a lot of market room for all sorts of fruits, the tropics and subtropics has an incredible diversity of fruits that the north is unfamiliar with, and locals could together in a cooperative and with partners in the US make regional markets for those fruits in the US, cutting out the big corporations.
There were a couple of brothers from san francisco that did that with acacia berries I think they were called according to an article in an old new yorker.
But fruit is just the tip of the iceberg, there is a wealth of other plants with many uses that could be traded with the north here, we need a forum to work out deals.
See also: Banana Republic