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In 1919, the California Department of Food and Agriculture was established. The department covers state food safety, state protection from invasive species, and promoting the state's agricultural industry. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s drove many people from the American prairie, and a significant number of these economic migrants relocated to ...
An urban farming program in California is providing a fresh take on front yards to help feed people in its community. Crop Swap LA is a nonprofit that transforms people's yards into produce ...
The wetlands have been the target of rescue operations to restore areas replaced by agriculture. [15] These patches of natural habitat are disconnected, which is particularly damaging for wildlife that is used to migrating along the rivers. Agriculture, grazing land, and the draining of lakes and rivers have radically altered valley habitats.
In 1905, the California legislature passed the University Farm Bill, which called for the establishment of a farm school for the University of California (at the time, Berkeley was the sole campus of the university). [19] The commission took a year to select a site for the campus, a tiny town then known as Davisville. [19]
The researchers said farming areas in the Central Valley and Southern California are especially vulnerable to economic damage. They projected that five counties — Fresno, Kern, Tulare, Merced ...
California’s wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
They are developing a 1.4 acre lot in West Oakland in which they will have a community garden, chicken coop, fruit orchard, and a vegetable plot. When completed, the space will be completely open to the public. [25] They received this grant because of California's Prop 84 which passed in 2006. Prop 84, titled the "Water Quality, Safety and Supply.
Henry Tarmy, co-owner of Ventura Spirits Company, a medium-sized distiller in Ventura, said his operation has sold all the California agave spirits it has ever produced, but they have been small ...