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Why Idaho? A volcano made the potato fields How Wisconsin became America's Dairyland The great orange flip: Florida vs California Why Illinois? The pumpkin-can secret Vermont's maple magic: freeze by night, thaw by day Two wheat belts: why the champ isn't “The Wheat State” Two corns: the one you eat vs the one cows eat Wild vs cultivated: the blueberry surprise The Sunflower State… doesn't grow the most sunflowers Why Texas is goat country Two cherry kingdoms: snack cherries vs pie cherries Why 9 out of 10 American grapes are Californian Christmas trees are a crop (a very slow one) Washington's fruit-bowl superpower Half a million new Texans: where America is moving The pickle pipeline: Michigan's crunchy secret The great bee road trip The bison comeback Llama or alpaca? A field guide The guard animal squad Why is Maine so 'old' and Utah so young? America's sugar grows two totally different ways The bean belt is up north, not in the desert The giant grain you've probably never met The little seed that loves the cold north The kitchen oil grown up by Canada Hummus from big-sky country The flower hiding in your cooking oil The soup pea that likes it cold Why Florida beats Arizona at being hot The crop that grows in the dark The tomatoes that never see a field The bread grain that laughs at frost The grain hiding in your bird feeder The oil state that quietly went green Why wide-open states are full of vehicles The islands that ship in their power Why Texas beats Florida at theme parks The great teacher flip: more kids, fewer teachers? The historic places the count can't see Small hills, big list: how New York nearly caught Colorado Two boat tables, two different winners The whale that visits both Alaska and Hawaii Where do seedless watermelons come from? Why the stars come back when you camp Fifty states, fifty ways to get to work The state where more than one in four is a kid Everyone says Florida. Everyone is wrong. The river that runs underground in Idaho Two fish farms, two completely different waters A rabbit is not a rodent — check behind the front teeth Why a zoo and a garden end up in the same box The third corn: the only one that explodes Alaska’s summer: the sun that forgets to set The farm where the harvest is the ground The crop that hides from the sun One state, one school district The state bird that came from far away The number that comes with a give-or-take The bird that gave up flying The fungus that drew the hazelnut map The farm you never have to feed The fish that arrive by plane One little box, seven thousand languages The fishing state with no sea Two kinds of quail The field that works twice The heat that comes by truck Plant it once, then wait five years Two states, two crowns The wheat that is not a wheat The house that arrives finished The tree that lost its forest One row, and the whole country