“In what way exactly?”
We have turned off their (actually, OUR) water.
They’ll figure it out.
100s of thousands of olive trees have already been planted. And millions of almond trees sold for firewood.
It’s a transition that takes 3-10 years...a portion at a time.
The problem is, NOTHING PAYS LIKE ALMONDS. Big corporate farms of several thousand acres dominate that crop and if it was up to them they would put the very last bucket of water onto the thirstiest crop in the state.
And they ship OVER half of the crop out of the country.
It’s obscene.
It takes a full gallon of water to grow every single nut. 10 times as much as olives.
I was answering the poster who told almond farmers (whom I guess are still farming them) to switch over to olives is all.