Kevin Gene Canze wrote:
>
> Isn't that really close to Gilroy, the garlic capital of the world?
>
> On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Fishwri wrote:
>
> > Castroville is indeed "The Artichoke Capital of the World."
> > Castroville is a small town just north of Monterey in central California.
> > Artichokes grow well in this cool,
> > summer-dry (= Mediterranean) climate.
> >
> > A very obscure bit of trivia--Marilyn Monroe was once
> > (reportedly) Castroville's Artichoke Queen.
> >
> > Eileen Campbell
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> >

They are maybe 30 miles apart on opposite sides of the coastal
mountains. Gilroy is in the Santa Clara/San Benito Valley; Castroville
is on the coastal plain. Climate is very different.
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