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  1. The Okanagan Valley: Canada's Fruit Basket 🍎🇨🇦

    British Columbia's Okanagan Valley is known as Canada's fruit basket! With its warm climate and fertile soil, the valley produces a wide variety of fruits, including apples, peaches, cherries, and grapes. It's a beautiful and bountiful region. 🇨🇦 #Canada #OkanaganValley #Agriculture #Fruits #BritishColumbia

    britishcolumbia.com/its-fruit-

  2. Deol's mature peach trees were capable of producing softball-sized fruit — so large that in 2016 the previous owner of the orchard registered a peach as the heaviest ever recorded.

    This year, in an effort to salvage the growing season, Deol is planting table grapes and rows of corn where those peach trees once stood.

    #BritishColumbia has more #FruitFarms than any other province, with more than twice as many growers as Ontario and Quebec combined.

    The total estimated value of fruit production in B.C. is more than $450 million annually, according to Statistics Canada. The vast majority of B.C.'s tree #fruits are grown in the #OkanaganValley with cherries, apples and peaches being the most commonly grown tree-fruit crops in the region.

    cbc.ca/amp/1.7249339

    #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #BCpoli #Farmers #FruitProducers #AdaptingToClimateChange

  3. Why Doesn’t Fewer Cowbirds Mean Less Nest Parasitism? wilsonsociety.org/2024/02/07/g

    "When #cowbird abundance declines, such as is occurring in the #OkanaganValley and throughout much of North America, a sort of 'competitive release' could occur, where individual female #cowbirds may be free to maintain larger egg-laying territories and to parasitize more nests."

    #Birds #Bird #Animals #Ecology #Parasites #NestParasitism