cantaloupe
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A farmworker directs Times Staff Writer Brittny Mejia, who joined the crew to harvest watermelons and, the following week, cantaloupe.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025
The American squatted in the dirt, struggling to free the cantaloupe from its prickly stem, almost toppling over.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025
In the early 1960s, Michoacano cantaloupe farmers acquired lands to expand their production by growing avocados.
From Salon • May 29, 2024
A salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe has now killed eight people - three in the U.S. and five in Canada, health officials reported Thursday.
From Washington Times • Dec. 8, 2023
“But they really found the chickens in the desert without a drop of blood inside. They were blowing around like dry cantaloupe skins.”
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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