05-24-2014, 01:24 PM
Oh yeah, forgot to add that the family no longer farms anymore, used to grow almonds and wheat. Family retired out when GMO was introduced. Back in the day when draft horses were used, one steam tractor to run the press and the rest horses and manual labor, our family produced 75 ton of baled hay a day to supply the local farmers for their" machinery". The Thompson seedless was developed on the farm next door. Back then it was all organic, hybrids were developed by grafting. The apricot of Santa Clara County was a hybrid of wild plum rootstock grafted to an apricot so it would adapt to the heavy adobe type soil found in the hills surrounding what is now sillycone valley. Saw those trees disappear with housing growth as a kid while on the mainland going to school, dreaming of a school break and a flight back to Oahu to stay with my great auntie, surf, and barefoot!
Are you a human being, or a human doing?
Are you a human being, or a human doing?