cbs2.com - Garlic Farms Getting Cleared Out Of Gilroy
Land use pressure in Gilroy? No garlic? What is the world coming to? My kids and I just got back from California. We were driving up and down the coast highway and Highway 101, and got pretty close to Gilroy when we spent the night in Watsonville. (If you are in the Monterey or Watsonville area, check out Phil's Eatery and Fish Market in Moss Landing, by the way.) Anyway, we weren't close enough to Gilroy to smell the garlic. But if you look at the place on a map,you will see that anybody who tries to commute from there to San Francisco had better pack a lunch.
AP) GILROY, Calif. People enjoying the Gilroy Garlic Festival Saturday may not know that while the garlic may seem plentiful the area's garlic farms are disappearing. Only three growers remain in Santa Clara County because of land-use pressure, economics and plant disease.
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Yup, land use pressure. Probably nobody in Gilroy commutes to San Francisco, but there is a tremendous amount of industry in and around San Jose: Silicon Valley. Suburbanization has spread south from San Jose through the valley to Morgan Hill, San Martin, and Gilroy. Several people in my office (Santa Clara) commute from that area, one from as far Aromas.
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