Roadtrip to America’s Breadbasket

From the cold San Francisco (that’s where AM’s sad little flimsy voice comes from) Tobi, Christian and AM took a drive into the big valley in the middle of California instead of taking the coastal road that we have seen before.

This brought us to Central Valley. It is also known as America’s Breadbasket because it produces about 8 percent of the nation’s agricultural output on just 1 percent of the land.

The fields are huge compared to the Danish fields we are used to, and when you stand up high and look out over the totally flat landscape it just disappears into what is probably the curvature of the Earth. Amazing!

We drove past huge squares of almonds, salad, cotton, lemons, apricots, grapes, tomatoes, pumpkins, artichokes and all sorts of other exciting crops, just thinking about the amount of water and labour that goes on each of those fields.

But the most amazing sight is something that can eat the crops; a field of some large animals that is so massive that it makes each creature look small.

On roadtrip in Americas Breadbasket

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