Listen 11 min MORE “It’s almost apocalyptic,” says Dawn Birch, describing the area surrounding her farm in Three Rivers. As the river and their holding ponds have dried up, she and her husband are digging their first well for the farm. Photo by Gillian Ferguson.
Market correspondent Gillian Ferguson catches up with Chef Carlos Salgado of
Taco Marìa in Costa Mesa. Salgado is loading up on stone fruit, which he uses in a chamoy and a peach salsa for his tacos. Next, Dawn Birch of
Flora Bella Farm is seeing the drought up close. In their 30 years of farming, she hasn’t experienced such extreme drought.