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This is sort of a curiousity thing but I also want to know so I do the right thing.
Awhile back on Freecycle the moderator said fruit couldn't be transported between neighborhoods and neighboring towns. They didn't site anything from the USDA and I know this is true between states. I've tried to google this but sometimes my google skills aren't the best (word choosing?) Does anyone know how I would find this out for certain? I'll update this if I find it, but I thought someone here might know right off the bat.
Thanks!
Hi Reverend Ruby, That's what I thought too, but find no mention of it. I'll search some more...
I've looked at the California agriculture page and page for my county. I don't see anything but I did put an email in. This is a wierd tree, I've seen a few other around town. The apples are usually ready mid July (this year it's eary I imagine because of the weather). The first year I didn't get any of them because I was waiting for Autumn. This tree is done by then.....
Yeah, CA is wierd about the fruits and vegatables at the border. You aren't supposed to bring some houseplants in either. I guess when you're the largest agriculture state in the nation you should take some care but I imagine they probably don't go always go about it in the nicest way possible. I remember my sister not wanting to waste some fruit when coming back into CA once and eating a whole bunch at a time.....bleah!
Contact your local Agriculture Department.
I lived in Cali from 1985-1995 we had a huge med-fly infestation and we weren't supposed to move fruit around from one area to another. It's like here in Wisconsin now they are asking people not to move firewood because of the Ash tree bug. Could this be what they are talking about?
Agriculture products and other "living" things need to be controled. If something is transported into a new habitat it could cause major damage.
In this part of the country (keep in mind I can drive through 4 different states in 3 hours), you can not transport firewood over state lines.
In Vermont, they are having huge problems because a type of water plant was introduced and is choking out many of the other plants that are a source of food and help with water filtration.
I have never heard this for neighborhoods and neighboring towns, and I've lived in CA all my life. If you have a bunch of apples that you grew, and you want to give them to someone in Livermore, it's hard to imagine that would cause any problems?? Well, and, given that it's not exactly apple season there in Pleasanton, I'm guessing these are apples that you bought. If that's the case, they've already been treated and/or inspected, so you can take them wherever you want. You can take them out of state as well, but you just can't bring fruit back into CA.
Try this link - it's about fruit flies but there may be other info on the site. It may be that there is a "quarantine" on certain fruits to prevent the spread of invasive pests? I know that in MA we have restrictions on firewood and some trees, and some previously popular and common plants (trees, shrubs, perennials) are now considered invasive and are no longer available to buy, sell, trade, give away etc. We've also had a ban on using personal watercraft in some areas that may have been exposed to an invasive mussel that's spreading into other waterways via boat hulls.
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pe/interiorExclusion/medfly_...
You can take fruit over state lines except in nut job California. Once at the California border straight from camping out I stood at the bug station and told them I had more bugs in my tent than in any vegetables in car. Then I shook the tent out and dumped lots of hitchhiking bugs.
That wasn't import just the vegetables.
You can't cross into Canada, a sovereign nation, either with fresh fruit and vegetables but most states have no bug station.
