how does the demand and supply of freshly grown food keep up?

Question

I don’t get how say a strawberry grower/supplier for a major supermarket, grows and supplies continuous amounts of strawberries (or any other food item grown) to be able to supply the whole country on a mass basis.
Surely, once the ripe ones have been picked you have to wait ages for them to grow again. How on earth is there ever enough to supply so much all the time?

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Answer 1

I work for a company that has greenhouses. You get multiple harvests from one plant. Our tomatoes produce fruit for 36 weeks. We also dont have all of our ranges planted on the same schedule so even when one crop ends another crop in a different range has started.