A Kingdom from Dust — The California Sunday Magazine
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A story of power, drought, migrant labor, and an insatiable drive to expand.
Stewart Resnick is the biggest farmer in the United States, a fact he has tried to keep hidden while he has shaped what we eat, transformed California’s landscape, and ruled entire towns. But the one thing he can’t control is what he’s most dependent on — water. 1517435220 A Kingdom from Dust Photographs by Trent Davis Bailey Illustrations by Denise Nestor On a summer day in the San Joaquin Valley, 101 in the shade, I merge onto Highway 99 past downtown Fresno and steer through the vibrations of heat. I’m headed to the valley’s deep south, to a little farmworker town in a far corner of Kern Co
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