<div>Are avocados toast? California farmers bet on what we'll be eating in 2050</div>

For farmers planting crops they hope will bear fruit in 25 years – including avocado trees – climate change must be reckoned with nowChris Sayer pushed his way through avocado branches and grasped a denuded limb. It was stained black, as if someone had ladled tar over its bark. In February, the temperature had dropped below freezing for three hours, killing the limb. The thick leaves had shriveled and fallen away, exposing the green avocados, which then burned in the sun. Sayer estimated he’d lost one out of every 20 avocados on his farm in Ventura, just 50 miles north of Los Angeles, but he counts himself lucky.The trees are totally confusedThey would grow in any postapocalyptic hellscape you could imagineSmoothies, toast, ice cream, you name it – that consumption has increased sevenfold since 2000It looked like someone had irradiated the place with toxic chemicalsBetter soil is going to put us in a better positionAgriculture can play a huge role in stopping, slowing down, maybe even reversing climate change Continue reading...