Organic Tomatoes in January: Sucking Mexico Dry | Mother Jones: Organic Tomatoes in January: Sucking Mexico Dry
—By Tom Philpott
| Mon Jan. 2, 2012 1:18 PM PST
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Walk into a fancy grocery store today and you'll see them: stacks of pristine, glistening organic tomatoes. But what does it take to generate a bounty of organic tomatoes in January?
According to a great New York Times story by Elizabeth Rosenthal, the bulk of organic tomatoes now gracing the produce aisles of US supermarkets hail from Mexico's Baja Peninsula—a desert. Rosenthal reports that Baja's production of US-bound organic tomatoes has expanded dramatically in recent years. And growing large moncrops in a desert, organic or not, requires lots and lots of water. Here's Rosenthal:
—By Tom Philpott
| Mon Jan. 2, 2012 1:18 PM PST
Chiot's Run/Flickr
Walk into a fancy grocery store today and you'll see them: stacks of pristine, glistening organic tomatoes. But what does it take to generate a bounty of organic tomatoes in January?
According to a great New York Times story by Elizabeth Rosenthal, the bulk of organic tomatoes now gracing the produce aisles of US supermarkets hail from Mexico's Baja Peninsula—a desert. Rosenthal reports that Baja's production of US-bound organic tomatoes has expanded dramatically in recent years. And growing large moncrops in a desert, organic or not, requires lots and lots of water. Here's Rosenthal:
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