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EPISODE · Jan 12, 2026 · 13 MIN

California Foodways: While the Bay Area sleeps, the Oakland Produce Market bustles with life

from Crosscurrents · host KALW

Look in your fridge right now: maybe you have apples, lettuce, some herbs? As Californians, we have a sense of where those foods are grown. But produce, it takes a journey to get from farms to our homes. It goes through many places, and is cared for by many, many people.For her series, California Foodways, KALW’s Senior Editor Lisa Morehouse got up in the middle of the night, to meet a bunch of those people who keep the Oakland Produce Market humming.

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