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Mushrooms for Wildfire Resilience

Caff

Several years ago, Cheetah Tchudi and his wife Samantha Zangrilli bought 40 acres of undeveloped land in Butte County. Today they raise several types of livestock, tend a one acre herb garden, and produce a variety of culinary grade mushrooms. Cheetah gives a tour of the mushroom growing greenhouses.

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As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

Civil Eats

López’s family moved to Salton City from Arizona in 2018 when her then-husband got a job working in greenhouses in the Imperial Valley, south of the sea. The goal is to create wetland wildlife habitat and plant vegetation to suppress dust on 30,000 of the 60,000 acres expected to be exposed by 2028. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.