California’s wine boom reached places like Lodi and Edna Valley — now they’re hurting

What happened

According to Local News Matters’s source item, California’s wine boom reached places like Lodi and Edna Valley — now they’re hurting, THE DUNNIGAN HILLS. The Kelsey Bench. Fiddletown. Edna Valley. Lodi. These disparate California regions would seem to have little in common, other than their rural ambience and dependence on agriculture. But they all share an unenviable quality: they’re in deep economic trouble. That’s because their primary crop — wine grapes — are not in high […] The post California’s wine boom reached places like Lodi and Edna Valley — now they’re hurting appeared first on Local News Matters .

Context

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Source

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