[cherry]

farmland and forest land is being gobbled up by developers....the land is more valuable as a condo coomplex then growing beans and tomatoes....

[Wallace T.]

A century ago, the major cities were surrounded by truck farms that provided much of the vegetable and dairy, as well as some of the fruit and meat. However, regions of the country, such as California for vegetables and fruit, Wisconsin for cheese, North Carolina for poultry, etc.

My paternal grandmother was born in Queens, New York, in 1892, at a time that what would become the New York City borough was largely farmland. The market was in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Queens and most of Long Island have long since become urbanized. However, far eastern Long Island and the Hudson Valley north of Interstate 84 could easily become major producers of farm products given farm friendly Federal and state governments.