Steve Pope > wrote:

> Gloria P > wrote:
>
>>Except for a very short time during the summer, avocados here in
>>Colorado are 2/$3 for the small ones or 2/$5 for decent sized ones.
>
> That's odd because avocados are mostly harvested later in the year.
>
> Maybe these summer avocados are (somehow) locally grown?

Mexico, Central, and South America pump out a lot of avocados. Each
year the government lets more and more in. For the longest time
they didn't allow any imports. And later, only to the northeast
states during certain months. I think they're unrestricted now.

-sw