Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
California Pistachio Boom Pistachios are hand sorted at the Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds processing plant in Lost Hills, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
A California businessman invested his savings in a pistachio farm. The return of Tulare Lake has left hundreds of his acres underwater. 'It's a disaster': California farmer faces ordeal as ...
California has more certified organic farms than any other state. In 2016, more than a million acres in the state were certified organic. [188] CA grows 90% or more of the U.S. production of Organic almonds, artichokes, avocados, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, dates, figs, grapes, strawberries, lemons, lettuce, plums, and walnuts. [189]
The farming operation may be forced to sell more than 50,000 acres of farmland.
Frazier Mountain in the Los Padres National Forest is in the background. An agreement between the Tejon Ranch Company and a coalition of environmental groups, announced in May 2008, [13] is designed to permanently protect 240,000 acres (970 km 2) of the historic ranch. It is the largest conservation and land-use pact in California history. [14]
Newberry Springs is an unincorporated community in the western Mojave Desert of Southern California, located at the foot of the Newberry Mountains in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Newberry Spring is a spring that in the 19th century supplied water to the local Santa Fe Railway and originally was a camping place. [ 1 ]
“I thought I was just going to come here and be a student. When they called me I was working. I had a job.”
Now, Wonderful grows between 15% and 20% of the U.S. pistachio crop, he said. Its pistachio orchards stretch across vast tracts of dust-filled farmland northwest of Los Angeles also lined with pomegranates and dairies. The trees are shaken each fall and the nuts hauled to a massive processing facility to be be prepped for sale.