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New report explores long-term effects of COVID-19 on state's cattle, dairy, produce, strawberry, tomato, nut and wine industries. COVID-19 continues to affect parts of California agriculture in different ways.
Americans' interest in traditional homemaking activities gardening, cooking, baking bread and canning has risen dramatically over the last few months, according to Google Trends. Getting reliable information is particularly important when it comes to home food preservation.
At the end of February, before COVID-19 disrupted normal life, members of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Tribe, in a remote area of Riverside County, gathered to plant vegetables and herbs in the A'Avutem (elders) garden.
When California issued a statewide stay-at-home order to slow the spread of COVID-19 earlier this spring, a handful of essential services were exempted from the order. Along with grocery stores and agricultural operations, farmers markets were included as essential sources of food.