San Joaquin Valley
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Known for its rich farmland.
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The plaintiffs argue that the state’s “excessive” pumping from the Delta has led more growers to plant water-intensive almond and pistachio orchards across vast stretches of the San Joaquin Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Paola Lopez, who has harvested raisins in the central San Joaquin Valley, supports stronger regulations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
For the next 16 years, he hardly owned any material possessions and worked for free as a high school teacher in San Francisco and throughout some of the poorest areas in the San Joaquin Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Over an alfalfa field in California's San Joaquin Valley, a small crop-spraying plane is flying scarily low to the ground.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
All summer They have lived On candies and plums, Bunches of grapes From their tw In the San Joaquin Valley.
From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto
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