{"id":24098,"date":"2017-04-01T16:07:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T23:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24098"},"modified":"2017-04-01T16:07:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T23:07:58","slug":"digging-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/digging-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging Food, Loving the Farm in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dvrch.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The so-called &#8220;Bad Boys of Brexit&#8221; are reportedly investing over $1 million for Cal-Exit to split up California. Unlike previous proposals splitting the state into North and South, this one places most\u00a0the coast from Los Angeles to the Oregon border in West California. Orange County and San Diego are part of Eastern California &#8212; home to California&#8217;s fertile farm land. While technology giants like Google and Facebook get more media attention and contribute a large portion of taxes to the state budget, it&#8217;s primarily &#8220;East California&#8221; that feeds us. Living in OC, I would be part of the East, home to California&#8217;s rich farmland.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-farm-facts.html\">latest farm statistics<\/a> as to what counties bring home the bacon:<\/p>\n<h2>East California<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>#1 Tulare $6,980,772,000 (nearly $7 billion) Milk, Cattle &amp; Calves, Oranges, Table Grapes<\/li>\n<li>#2 Kern $6,878,664,000 Almonds, Table Grapes, Milk,<\/li>\n<li>#3 Fresno $6,605,943,000 Almonds, Poultry, Raisin Grapes, Milk<\/li>\n<li>#5 Stanislaus $,879,333,000 Almonds, Milk, Chickens, Walnuts<\/li>\n<li>#6 Merced $3,589,900,000 Milk, Almonds, Chickens, Cattle &amp; Calves<\/li>\n<li>#7 San Joaquin $2,732,900,000 Almonds, Milk, Grapes -Wine, Walnuts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>West California<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>#4 Monterey $4,841,519,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-strawberry-festivals.html\">Strawberries<\/a>, Lettuce, Broccoli, Cauliflower<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The so-called &#8220;Bad Boys of Brexit&#8221; are reportedly investing over $1 million for Cal-Exit to split up California. Unlike previous proposals splitting the state into North and South, this one places most\u00a0the coast from Los Angeles to the Oregon border in West California. Orange County and San Diego are part of Eastern California &#8212; home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24098"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}