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apples from Washington. \a. It's just that the l'. S. marketing system dominated by the chain store industry has made things the way they are. not the way they should be.
WHEN Fauquier, Loudoun and Rappahannock and other counties on the front line of the suburbia sprawling out from Washington, D. C. go out of production, it w ill mean that land in other parts of the country will be used for growing foodstuffs, often “•marginal” land that has lower productivity—which means higher prices in the urban markets.
Some argue: “So what? People have to have a place to live, so let the northern Virginia suburbia grow.” Besides the obvious foolishness of trying to cram so much of the nation’s population into an unbroken urban corridor between Boston and Norfolk, that “so what” answer ignores the fact that those same people who have got to have a place to live also have to eat.
There’s an element of common sense involved that the U. S.’s far-flung system of marketing has ignored, and the so-called “energy crisis,” if there is a shred of intelligence left in the land, should force the implementation of something more practical than shipping lettuce from Texas, tomatoes from Arizona, onions from upstate New York and beef from the Midwest.
All of those things can be grown right here—if we don't pave it all over or put townhouses and subdivisions all over the land. Z
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