A Kingdom from Dust
Via Cousin John
On a summer day in the San Joaquin Valley, 101 in the shade, I merge
onto Highway 99 past downtown Fresno and steer through the vibrations
of heat. I’m headed to the valley’s deep south, to a little farmworker
town in a far corner of Kern County called Lost Hills. This is where the
biggest irrigated farmer in the world — the one whose mad plantings of
almonds and pistachios have triggered California’s nut rush — keeps on
growing, no matter drought or flood. He doesn’t live in Lost Hills. He
lives in Beverly Hills. How has he managed to outwit nature for so long?
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