Potatoes take 2-4 months to grow and are usually only planted between March and May. How are there enough to sell in any of the other months?
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There are ways to store many vegetables and fruits for longer periods of time — the average grocery store apple was picked over a year ago. Potatoes are also very hearty and can be stored for long periods of time. This is done through temperature, humidity, air mixture to slow or speed up ripening (I toured a produce distributor a couple years ago, and they had multiple banana rooms to take a giant shipment picked at same time and be able to spread them out over weeks in terms of ripening).
There are also ways to source from different regions of the world where growth seasons differ. Potatoes may come from Idaho for half the year and Peru the other half the year. For example, I notice that when I buy blueberries (which can’t be stored long term), they come from South America in the winter, the Southern US in early spring, and then gradually seem to move north… so March and April blueberries are from Florida, May and June ones from Georgia and South Carolina, July and August ones from Michigan.
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