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Bulldozing California’s Peach Orchards

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Bulldozing California’s Peach Orchards
A freestone variety peach at an orchard in Edgerton, Kan., in a file photo. Cat Rooney/Epoch Times
Mollie Engelhart
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Across parts of California right now, perfectly healthy peach orchards are being pushed into piles by bulldozers. Trees that took years to establish are being ripped out not because the fruit stopped growing, but because the market around them collapsed.

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Mollie Engelhart
Mollie Engelhart
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Mollie Engelhart, regenerative farmer and rancher at Sovereignty Ranch, is committed to food sovereignty, soil regeneration, and educating on homesteading and self-sufficiency. She is the author of “Debunked by Nature”: Debunk Everything You Thought You Knew About Food, Farming, and Freedom—a raw, riveting account of her journey from vegan chef and LA restaurateur to hands-in-the-dirt farmer, and how nature shattered her cultural programming.