This is very true, I remember taste of tomatoes grown by my grandpa 15-20 years ago, it&#x27;s almost a different veggie. Same with strawberries I remember eating from bushes as a kid, didn&#x27;t taste or look like the ones in the shop.<p>Cherries on the other hand are pretty good. Maybe because they grow on trees, which have much longer lifetime and therefore are harder to optimize for yield. Also seeing couple of cherry  &quot;farms&quot; made me think it&#x27;s a good idea - instead of pesticides, genetic modifications, in-house cultivation or whatever - they use gigantic mesh to protect them from unwanted animals and I think that&#x27;s it. I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s a common practice or just few exceptions I&#x27;ve seen.