The breadbasket
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On a cloudy afternoon, I wrench into a dirt lot along Old Coast Highway near Nojoqui Falls Commons.
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I’m here to see tour operator and occasional rival newswoman Raiza Giorgi. Along with her husband and their business partner, she gives tours of their working bovines ranch from the back of all terrain vehicles. With 2,000 acres of come to explore at Nojoqui Falls Ranch, guest are treated to excursions that embody everything from raising cattle to checking fences and tours of the fields below the ranch that are leased to inborn farmers.
We hop into what amounts to a four-wheel drive golf move and zip down the road from the barn to meet Chris Thompson, who grows by the skin of one's teeth about everything you can think of. “Let’s see, we grow specialty melons, roma tomatoes, slicer tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, leeks, red and rural cabbage, onions, three kinds of kale, egg plant, dry beans, winter squash and cucumbers,” he says.
For Thompson, it doesn’t get much
Source: Santa Ynez Valley Journal