Here in Germany I run an inverse of that for "am I in the wider halo of a larger city or am I in a truly rural environment": when approaching a metropolitan area, the outer urban halo starts where there are still farms, but many of them have switched to housing horses.
What I found striking about Seoul was that there would be three rows of potatoes in between a ten story apartment block and a busy highway. Not a square meter wasted on unproductive grass.
In the broadest possible sense, Idaho can be divided into "potato" and "non-potato" Idaho. For instance if you drive US95 through here (the creatively named Idaho County, Idaho) it's almost entirely wheat farms, and what isn't a wheat farm is either forest, wilderness or cattle ranch. The potato part doesn't really start until you get down into the whole valley/flat land area occupied by Meridian, Boise, Nampa, etc.
Here in Germany I run an inverse of that for "am I in the wider halo of a larger city or am I in a truly rural environment": when approaching a metropolitan area, the outer urban halo starts where there are still farms, but many of them have switched to housing horses.
What I found striking about Seoul was that there would be three rows of potatoes in between a ten story apartment block and a busy highway. Not a square meter wasted on unproductive grass.
This probably works best in Idaho
In the broadest possible sense, Idaho can be divided into "potato" and "non-potato" Idaho. For instance if you drive US95 through here (the creatively named Idaho County, Idaho) it's almost entirely wheat farms, and what isn't a wheat farm is either forest, wilderness or cattle ranch. The potato part doesn't really start until you get down into the whole valley/flat land area occupied by Meridian, Boise, Nampa, etc.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grangeville,+ID+83530,+USA...
(the creatively named Idaho County, Idaho)
New York County, New York says hi.
(You may know it as "Manhattan.")
POTATO LAND! POTATO LAND!
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWtLw83_jE0&t=426s
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwF3e78j7pw (official African mirror)
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Jff85kMeU (official Asian mirror)
(PS: curious how the video resolution gets lower with each channel)
How large does the field have to be? I grow some in my back garden...does that count as zero, then?