In the South, autumn arrives as a mood-not a chill. Warm days and long growing seasons fuel sunflowers, winter strawberries and booming fall festivals- and how Southern traditions turn heat into harvest.
00:00Southern fall arrives more as a mood than a noticeable temperature drop. The air is usually still sticky this time of year and you're still looking for some shade most afternoons. But make no mistake, warm days and a longer growing season means the main event for southern farmers is just beginning. We don't harvest anything in the summer. They harvest everything in the summer. It's just too hot, too much rain, too buggy, too many hurricanes. And the signs of fall are everywhere.
00:29All festivals, farmers markets, and those Texas size sunflowers. Sunflowers we can grow here 12 months out of the year. And so that you can't do that too many places. Strawberries are something that the timing is unique to Florida. We supply a lot of the strawberries for the country during those winter months. Now living in the southern states does come with a tradeoff. You're not going to find a pumpkin like this in the Charlie Brown pumpkin patch. Pumpkins here in the southern states are shipped in from around the country. Falling
00:59in the southern states is served southern style from sweet potato pies to blueberry lemonade. There are plenty of sights and sounds that make autumn taste and look completely different depending on your zip code. I wish we had cooler weather. I prefer sweater weather. We came in August a few years back and that was almost unbearable for us. It was really hot. So it's cooler here. It's more like our summer for us. So fall seasons in the south are more than just the weather changing.
01:29It will bring memories, traditions and nostalgia. If the north owns cider and change of leaf, the south owns flavor and festivals. Very few of them have been on farms, but their uncle, their granddaddy, you know, they remember going to their farm. It just brings them home. In Claremont, Florida, I'm Leslie Hudson for AccuWeather.
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