The Buffalo News [2015-10-23]:
…California has long been the top producer of the nutritiously dense and once maligned vegetable. That state produces more than 95 percent of all broccoli grown in the United States.
But agricultural experts and farmers are working to develop a year-round broccoli industry on the Eastern United States, from Florida to Maine. And Eden farmers are poster children for what agriculture experts want do in New York State and the East Coast.
“We hope to replicate parts of that in other locations,” said Thomas Björkman, a Cornell University professor. “This is a great thing right here in Western New York.”