There’s plenty of legal jargon that goes over Jake Furstenfeld’s head when he tunes in via Zoom to court proceedings tied to a Cuyama Valley groundwater dispute. This wasn’t the case, however, when the local rancher and others with stakes in a lawsuit over water rights for a critically overdrafted basin heard a judge’s tentative […]
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After a community harvest, Cuyama Buckhorn plans to use its homegrown olives in as many ways as possible
Olive trees have been part of the Cuyama Buckhorn’s story since Ferial Sadeghian and her partner bought the property in 2018. They started remodeling the hotel and made a push to bring more drought-tolerant greenery to the 2 1/2 acres. “We worked a lot to make sure that we are doing the right planting that […]

