MARKET ECONOMY: Orange County used to be...
MARKET ECONOMY: Orange County used to be a farmer’s Garden of Eden, but nowadays most of the growers at the Fullerton Farmer’s Market are from foreign parts, such as Fresno and San Diego (B1). . . . At their peak in 1947, fields, orchards and pastures covered a third of the county, but now there are fewer than 100 commercial growers here. . . . After the Irvine Co., which has 44,000 acres in fields and pastures, few local farmers have plots as large as 100 acres.
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