The battle playing out in this stretch of rural California represents a new wave of legal challenges over water, long one of the most precious and contested resources in a state that grows much of …
Jeff Huckaby, president and CEO of Grimmway, holds a freshly-picked bundle of carrots from a field owned by the company, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in New Cuyama, Calif. In the Cuyama Valley northwest of Los Angeles, two of the country’s biggest carrot farmers filed a lawsuit in a bid to have their groundwater rights upheld by a judge.
The battle playing out in this stretch of rural California represents a new wave of legal challenges over water, long one of the most precious and contested resources in a state that grows much of the country’s produce. The school secretary doubles as a bus driver and a vegetable grower also offers horseshoeing services. There is a small market, hardware store, a Western-themed boutique hotel and miles of land sown with olives, pistachios, grapes and carrots.
Jean Gaillard stands in a greenhouse where he grows produce to sell to local residents, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in New Cuyama, Calif. Gaillard is a minimal water user trying to conserve by alternating rows of squash between corn stalks and capturing rainwater on the roof of an old barn. Children line up to drink water from a fountain inside Cuyama Elementary School, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in New Cuyama, Calif.
Lee Harrington walks in the pistachio orchard which he farms to sell, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Ventucopa, Calif. Harrington is one of the small farmers, cattle ranchers and others living near the tiny town of New Cuyama whose water supplies and livelihoods are at the heart of a groundwater rights lawsuit brought by two of the nation's biggest carrot farming companies.
Lee Harrington sits in a utility vehicle on his farm, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Ventucopa, Calif. Harrington is one of the small farmers, cattle ranchers and others living near the tiny town of New Cuyama whose water supplies and livelihoods are at the heart of a groundwater rights lawsuit brought by two of the nation's biggest carrot farming companies.
Jeff Huckaby, president and CEO of Grimmway, walks on a carrot field owned by the company, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in New Cuyama, Calif. In the Cuyama Valley northwest of Los Angeles, two of the country's biggest carrot farmers filed a lawsuit in a bid to have their groundwater rights upheld by a judge.
“It’s one of the best carrot-growing regions that we’ve come across,” Huckaby said, adding that arid regions are best so carrot roots extend below ground for moisture, growing longer. “The soil up here is ideal, temperatures are ideal, the climate is ideal.” “Without water, we have no school,” said Alfonso Gamino, the superintendent and principal. “If the water basin goes dry, I can kind of see Bolthouse and Grimmway going somewhere else, but what about the rest of us?”
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