, Columnist
Climate Change Is Coming for Your Pumpkin Pie
Unusual weather conditions could cause an entire national crop to fail.
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Climate change is a threat to many things: polar icecaps, coastal property, coral atolls. But canned pumpkin?
It's not as unlikely as it may sound. About four-fifths of America's canned pumpkin comes from one small town in central Illinois. Morton, where Nestle SA operates its Libby's cannery, takes in millions of gourds from the surrounding fields in the months leading up to Thanksgiving to make the paste that many cooks believe results in the best pumpkin pie.