For a number of years, there have been sporadic attempts in California to organize farm workers.

* Almond Production Manual Published by University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, this handbook includes amongst other chapters a history of almonds, trends in orchard management, and almond farm economics.

He owned a horse breeding farm in Corona, California, and raced thoroughbreds.

The experiment took place on June 11 at the Palo Alto farm in California with the press present.

In 1878, Disney's father Elias had moved from Huron County, Ontario, Canada to the United States at first seeking gold in California before finally settling down to farm with his parents near Ellis, Kansas, until 1884.

This species has been recorded from Orange County, California, near Westminster ; near a fish farm in Conejos County and the South Platte drainage, Colorado ; several counties in Florida ; Hawaii ; an unnamed tributary to Big Branch Bayou in Lacombe, Louisiana ; Beaverhead Rock Pond ( Madison County ), Montana ; Clark County, Nevada ; and Texas.

With their farm repossessed, the Joads cling to hope, mostly in the form of handbills distributed everywhere in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, describing the fruitful state of California and the high pay to be had in that state.

He supported the 1965 farm worker movement with Cesar Chavez in Delano, California.

Francis Marion (" Bud ") Wright, an Iowa farm boy who migrated to California as a young man, became a ranch hand for Senator Porter and later co-developer of the Hawk Ranch, which is now Northridge land.

After serving a week at the county jail, ( he described the experience to a reporter as being " like Palm Springs, but without the riff-raff ") Mitchum spent 43 days ( February 16 to March 30 ) at a Castaic, California, prison farm, with Life magazine photographers right there taking photos of him mopping up in his prison uniform.

The wind farm is being built by Caithness Energy using General Electric ( GE ) 2. 5 MW wind turbines, and it will supply electricity to Southern California Edison.

Hiram Bond corporate lawyer, investment banker whose farm in Santa Clara, California was used by Jack London as the opening scene in " The Call of the Wild ".

The Spinach Festival is traditionally held on the second weekend in November, and draws former residents ( many of them former migrant farm workers ) from Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, California, Washington State, and beyond.

Ultimately, the man lost his farm and moved with his disgruntled wife to California.

Also during 2008, California passed Proposition 2, known as the " Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act ", which orders new space requirements for farm animals starting in 2015.

In the late 1920s, George M. Darrow of the USDA began tracking down reports of a large, reddish-purple berry that had been grown on the northern California farm of a man named Rudolph Boysen.

They transplanted the vines to Knott's farm in Buena Park, California, where he nurtured them back to fruit-bearing health.

Here certain movements particularly influenced by a philosophy of nonviolence should be mentioned, including Mahatma Gandhi leading a decades-long nonviolent struggle against British rule in India, which eventually helped India win its independence in 1947, Martin Luther King's and James Bevel's adoption of Gandhi's nonviolent methods in the struggle to win civil rights for African Americans, and César Chávez's campaigns of nonviolence in the 1960s to protest the treatment of farm workers in California.

In the 1990s, Otis bought a farm near Sebastopol, California, north of San Francisco.

Between 1912 and 1914, Lane – one of the earliest female real estate agents in California – and her husband sold farm land in what is now the San Jose / Silicon Valley area of northern California.

In 1984, the Trappers ( who, at the time, were the Triple-A farm team of the California Angels ) became the first Canadian franchise to win a championship.

Bobby broke into the professional boxing ranks while working as a farm mechanic in El Centro, California.

* Ho " Charles " Kim and Hyung-soon " Harry " Kim, owners of " Kim Brothers " farm in Reedly California, patent holders for the " Le Grand " and Sun " Grand nectarine.

She joined Cesar Chavez in his efforts to provide justice for farm laborers in the fields of California.

Molina was born and raised in East Los Angeles, California and occasionally lived with his family in military bases in Guam and Germany.

Among the themes raised by Flaherty's footage were the challenge of the erosion of agricultural land and the Dust Bowl ( as well as the beginning of effective responses via improved soil conservation practices ), mechanization and rural unemployment, and large-scale migration from the Great Plains to California.

She was raised in San Diego, California.

She was born Ursula Kroeber, and raised in Berkeley, California, the daughter of anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and writer Theodora Kroeber.

Diaz was raised in Long Beach, California and attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.

He was raised in Newark, New Jersey ; Kankakee, Illinois ; Dallas, Texas ; Chula Vista, California, where he graduated from high school ; and San Diego, California.

" In this video clip, Sackeim also reveals that at a California ECT conference with 200 practitioners present, when polled as to whether they think ECT can lead to chronic cognitive deficits, two-thirds raised their hands.

One group, called the " Nature Boys ", took to the California desert and raised organic food, espousing a back-to-nature lifestyle like the Wandervogel.

Kent M. Keith was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Nebraska, California, Virginia, Rhode Island, and Hawaii, where he graduated from secondary school.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DiCaprio started his career by appearing in television commercials prior to landing recurring roles in TV series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains in the early 1990s.

Billie Joe Armstrong was born in Piedmont, California, a small town surrounded by the city of Oakland, and was raised in Rodeo, California, as the youngest of six children to Andrew " Andy " Armstrong and Ollie Jackson.

" Burton and his two sisters were raised by his mother in Sacramento, California.

Burton was raised Catholic and, at the age of thirteen, entered St. Pius X seminary in Galt, California to become a priest.

Sherry raised their daughter with her husband of 20 years, the physician Richard Benedon in Calabasas, California, where they currently reside.

Born in Chicago and raised in Danville, California, Bassler received a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis and a Ph. D. in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University.

* Randall Duke Cunningham, only U. S. Navy fighter ace of the Vietnam War, former Republican U. S. Representative from California ( raised in Shelbina )

TenNapel was born in Norwalk and raised in the town of Denair, California.

Lopez was born in Port Chester, New York and raised in Southern California and New York City.

Warnes was born in Seattle, Washington, and raised in Anaheim, California.

* Daniel Wu, a Hong Kong actor who was raised in Orinda, California

* Rick Warren ( author of The Purpose Driven Church and The Purpose Driven Life and senior pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County ) was raised in Ukiah before his family moved to Southern California.

Edwards was born in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and raised in Seaside, California although he played high school football in neighboring Monterey.