One interesting issue came up in one of our class discussions last week. By happenstance in my first class, I asked when tomatoes were in season; only one guy answered correctly. Then I kind of randomly asked them to name the correct peak growing season for a variety of other fruits and vegetables. The 25 students in that class guessed, mostly inaccurately (sometimes radically so), every single time. I repeated the discussion in my next class and the same thing happened there.

This generation seems to have lost this cultural knowledge since they don’t really need it in order to survive. Big argiculture supplies all types of produce regardless of the season. Besides, most of them, by their own admission, don’t eat fresh produce that often anyway.