Agriculture

Archibald Brabazon Sparrow Acheson, the 4th Earl of Gosford, was a member of the British House of Lords and played an important role in the coronation of Edward the VII in 1901. He also owned a large farm near Bakersfield.

Over a dozen farmworkers and UC Merced students protested the idea that machines could replace human workers.

Yamato Colony near Livingston was founded by and for Japanese American farmers.

Most farmworkers in the United States today aren’t represented by labor unions, but United Farm Workers is known by many as their voice.

James Ben Ali Haggin made a fortune in the Gold Rush, before acquiring a huge swath of Kern County.

Moore was born into slavery in Alabama in 1812 and became one of the earliest successful farmers in Fresno County, arriving here in 1853.

Kern County isn't the only one to claim the title, which has been in use for close 90 years.

Four teachers founded Fresno's Hedgerow Vineyard, and in 1878 were among the first to pack and ship raisins from Fresno.

Francis Eisen's first raisin crop came by accident, after a heat wave left his Muscat grapes dried on the vine in 1877.

Second-born sons of the British aristocracy, who often ran afoul of Victorian-era social standards, known as "remittance men," were among those recruited to settle Kern County's Rosedale Colony.