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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. Imperial Valley grows an estimated two-thirds of the country’s winter vegetables , as well as alfalfa for animal feed—but cattle has remained the No.

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Butcher profile: Will Simkin, Essington Farm Shop, Wolverhampton

Sustainable Food Trust

Essington Farm is situated amidst beautiful countryside with cattle and sheep grazing or resting under gnarled oak trees and well-maintained hedges along the narrow roads. Next to the entrance is an eye-catching display of bedding plants which are grown in one of the farm’s greenhouses. In 2005, aged 23, he returned to the farm.

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