What a Salad Bowl It Is!

Two tone lettuce field

In the earliest days of farming in the Salinas Valley, wheat and barley dominated the landscape. As the agricultural industry unfolded, grains were replaced by potatoes, beans, sugar beets, and lettuce, which made its first appearance in the fields in 1916. As row crops became the agricultural norm, farmers planted onions, cauliflower, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, […]