Within 18 hours of being plucked off the vine, a watermelon will arrive in the produce bins of Stop & Shop, Shaw’s and Whole Foods markets around Boston, waiting to be sliced.
But odds are that the dripping-with-flavor watermelon comes not from Massachusetts, or even Connecticut or Rhode Island. It probably just made its way more than 400 miles from the fields of Maryland and Delaware, which this month will produce about 20 percent of the nation’s watermelon harvest.
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