People can grow anything here.
The temperate climate favors every kind of plant. Walnut trees that like the cold grow beside palm trees that thrive in heat, and figs and olives that like a milder climate. Like the fertile plain, the fresh waters of the lake, eight miles wide and thirteen miles long, were rich, too, in all kinds of fish. Year round, fishermen spent long but profitable hours casting their nets into the blue water. The lake provided them a good living despite an occasional storm or a day when they caught nothing.