Category: California’s Central Valley

California Farmers Flood Fields to Boost Groundwater Basin

A field that has long grown tomatoes, peppers, and onions now looks like a wind-whipped ocean as farmer Don Cameron seeks to capture the runoff from a freakishly wet year in California to replenish the groundwater basin that is his only source to water his crops. Taking some tomatoes out of production for a year…


Frank Lloyd Wright Farmhouse

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1955, this unique home is situated on a 76-acre parcel in California’s Central Valley. The 4,041-square-foot, seven-bedroom, six-bath residence was built in 1961 by Buck Fawcett, a college football star who enrolled in Wright’s architecture courses at Stanford University in the 1940s. The location is unusual for one of…