{"id":3506,"date":"2016-02-06T07:06:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T15:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jcmgf.org\/mg2\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2018-03-30T12:48:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T19:48:45","slug":"tropical-fruit-grown-in-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/tropical-fruit-grown-in-nebraska\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Fruit Grown in Nebraska?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"themeblvd-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-inner\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can the Midwest Grow Citrus?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IZghkt5m1uY?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .video-inner -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .themeblvd-video-wrapper --><\/p>\n<p>Picture this: You\u2019re in a grove of tropical fruit trees, eating oranges, lemons, and figs straight from their source. Where are you? Thailand? Sicily? Florida?<\/p>\n<p>Chances are that the Midwest was not among your guesses. But Russ Finch, a mail-carrier-turned-farmer, is growing these tropical fruits in Alliance, Nebraska \u2014 in a greenhouse, of course.\u00a0The aptly named \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenhouseinthesnow.com\/\">Greenhouse in the Snow<\/a>\u201d uses the Earth\u2019s heat to keep the temperature\u00a0at a balmy 28 degrees. Here\u2019s how the geothermal heating system works, <a href=\"http:\/\/civileats.com\/2016\/01\/29\/step-inside-a-citrus-grove-in-a-geothermal-nebraska-greenhouse-video\/\">from Civil Eats<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perforated plastic tubes make a circuit underground outside the greenhouse in a trench 8-feet deep where Finch says the temperature remains a steady 52 degrees year-round. A fan moves air through the tubes and into the greenhouse when it gets too hot or cold.<\/p>\n<p>There are no propane or electric heaters, just a small motor that runs the small fan. That means the greenhouse uses very little energy, keeping costs down to about $1 a day, all but cutting out the fossil fuels needed to control the climate inside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure, the cost of constructing a greenhouse of this design\u00a0is pretty steep \u2014 like, $22,000. But with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/florida-orange-juice-citrus-tree-disease\/\">disease threatening Florida\u2019s oranges<\/a>\u00a0and an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/some-california-farmers-are-ditching-popular-crops-for-less-thirsty-varieties\/\">ongoing drought<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0California, maybe it\u2019s not such a bad idea to grow citrus in America\u2019s breadbasket, where \u2014 as Finch points out in the video above \u2014 water and land are relatively cheap and abundant.<\/p>\n<p>There are very few places in the\u00a0world where you can enjoy a fresh orange straight off the tree, and then step out into the snowy outdoors. Right now, Nebraska is one of them.]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Picture this: You\u2019re in a grove of tropical fruit trees, eating oranges, lemons, and figs straight from their source. Where are you? Thailand? Sicily? Florida? Chances are that the Midwest was not among your guesses. But Russ Finch, a mail-carrier-turned-farmer, is growing these tropical fruits in Alliance, Nebraska \u2014 in a greenhouse, of course.\u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":3507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[86,75],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-86","tag-tropoical-fruit-grown-in-the-north","classic-edited"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}