Orchard Ranching Sharecropping 
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. It really is modern-day sharecropping.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Land grabs are rampant” throughout California, says Fanous, noting the latest case in which an investment group snatched up 55,000 acres of ranch and farmland in Solano County, in the northeastern San Francisco Bay Area. And it’s getting worse as we see hedge funds and corporations come in,” she says. That’s the only way we survived.”
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