I haven't bought any from one of the independent stands in a while but one of the fellows had a French accent and he said he was out of California. No one else volunteered the info. This was before we actually had two farmer's markets locally so my guess was that some may indeed have been local (rethinking the 'lower 48' comment myself) but when it was cherries, corn, apples, oranges, etc, it had to be from down south.