#FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #gardening #ClimateChangeGardening 
TL;DR
*Climate change will significantly impact food systems.
*Plants have optimal growing temperatures and many follow seasonal cycles.
*My feed will highlight plants with higher OGT, don’t depend on seasonal cycles or flower in late season.
*Farmers focus on what will sell, leaving new options unexplored.
*Creating demand for these plants would stabilize our food supply.
Temperate fruit and nut trees need a specific number of "chill hours" to bloom; warm winters can lead to crop failures.
Unseasonably warm late winters can also cause early blooming, which frost can then destroy. Some plants, like pawpaws, can re-flower after frost but most cannot.
Some plants, such as blueberries, may re-flower in autumn due to prolonged warm temperatures, resulting in reduced yields the following year.
@jblue this is the trouble local farmers of apples and other fruit in our area of mountainous Japan have experienced in recent years resulting in poor harvests.
@jblue We have had exactly this two years a row in our little line of home fruit trees - early blossoming, hard late frost, not a single fruit set.