Hand melons – a particular variety of cantaloupe – are only produced at one farm in Greenwich, NY.
California grows 99% (you read that right: NINETY-NINE PERCENT!) of the nation’s pistachios.
New DNA Map of the Pistachio Could Create Better Varieties | UC Davis.
Hatch is a regional designation (not that we really do much of that here.). The cultivar group is New Mexico, with many cultivars, some grown in the Hatch Valley and elsewhere, some not. IME “Hatch” is a marketing gimmick for the rest of the country; nobody here cares.
Grow a NuMex Big Jim in Hatch? That’s a Hatch chili. Grow it Anthony? It’s not. They go in the same bin at the grocery store in Las Cruces.
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Minnesota is the top global producer of cultivated wild rice. It also has more acres of natural wild rice than any other state.
Vidalia onions can only be grown in one specific area centered on Vidalia, GA.
See post 28.
Pierce County, Washington grows 90% of America’s rhubarb (at least the variety that’s sold commercially and eaten).
North Dakota grows about 85% of the nation’s canola (a.k.a. the unfortunately-named rapeseed), great news for people who find olive oil too “fancy.”
If you narrow it to pumpkins for canned production, Illinois has 90% of them.
But commercially available Venus fly traps come from nurseries all over the country, including California and Colorado.