In our Chapter Nine: Primary Industries and Rural Landscapes, we examine the many types of farms that have helped make California’s approximately $60 billion dollar agricultural industry second to none for several decades. The state also celebrates an incredibly diverse farming industry from small family farms and community supported agriculture to some of the largest corporate farms on the planet. A January 2018 article in The California Sunday Magazine put the spotlight on the Wonderful Company, one of the greatest agricultural empires in the world, an empire that helps define Big Ag and big water. Chances are good that you have consumed food from their farms and even viewed their orchards while travelling between southern and northern California through the Central Valley.
Here, we invite you to read A Kingdom from Dust to learn more about the people and communities that help characterize California’s rural landscapes. We entice you with Resnick’s quote (the most powerful California farm owner so far in the 21st Century) from the article:
“My life is about California. I didn’t grow up here, but if it wasn’t for California, its openness and opportunities, I wouldn’t be sitting where I’m sitting.”
