Floods Fill Some of California’s Summer Strawberry Fields

Floods Fill Some of California’s Summer Strawberry Fields
A flooded Pajaro River in Pajaro, Calif., on March 14, 2023. California Strawberry Commission via AP
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As river water gushed through a broken levee, thousands of people in a California farming town were forced to evacuate as their homes were flooded and businesses destroyed.

Yet another potential casualty of the powerful rainstorms that drenched coastal California: hundreds of acres of fresh strawberries slated for America’s supermarket shelves this summer.