Monica Eng at the Tribune raises a worrisome question: will all our locavore restaurants have any local fruit this year? Will anybody? The problem is that our early warm spell leaves our fruit subject to a frost which could kill the flowers already appearing— thus killing off the fruit this year too. It’s happened before— if not for a while; the example one “old-timer” recalls is 1945, when “Most people were wiped out, but those who had a little fruit made a lot of money.” Mick Klug, who sells at Green City Market, says “We need all the prayers we can get… iit only takes one night in the low 20s to devastate the crop. And we still have to get through the whole month of April and the first two weeks of May.” [Tribune]
