"Although much has been written about the urban-rural divide in America, the city of Salinas, California, like so many other places in the state and nation whose economies are based on agriculture, is at once rural and urban. For generations, Salinas has been associated with migrant farmworkers from different racial and ethnic groups. This broad-ranging history of "the Salad Bowl of the World" tells a complex story of community-building in a multiracial,...

In accordance with Sections 2272 and 2279 of the California Food and Agricultural Code, the annual crop report reflects the crop production value for Monterey County.

"A compilation of articles on agricultural crops and local California history, chiefly in Monterey County, originally published in the Coastal grower." --WorldCat.

"The Salinas River meanders through the center of a long, lovely valley, sometimes ducking underground in summer, or diverting into canals to water fields that stretch away to the chiseled Santa Lucia Mountains. Memorialized by novelist John Steinbeck, and often called the salad bowl of the nation, Salinas Valley was the site of the Spanish Mission Soledad, founded in 1791. During the rancho era, vast herds of cattle waded though grasslands and later,...

In 1971, Bruce Neuburger--young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley--took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous and largely immigrant workforce that feeds the nation. This account of his journey begins at a remarkable moment, after the birth of the United Farm Workers union...

This four volume set documents the history of Factory No. 1 from its beginnings (1897-1899) until the main factory plant was razed at the end of the summer in 1993. With its imposing scale and architecture, the factory evoked the industrial strength of the United States during the 1900s. Factory No. 1 was significant in the local area as a catalyst for change in the agricultural patterns of the Salinas and Pajaro Valleys.