LA Times Today: Final orange grove in the San Fernando Valley is likely to give way to luxury homes
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For most of the first half of the 20th century, farms and orchards covered big swaths of L.A. County. It was the top agricultural county in the nation, and citrus played a key role in the branding and selling of Southern California. Now, the San Fernando Valley may be seeing the demise of it’s very last orange grove.