California drought: Farmers cut back sharply, affecting jobs and food supply (CS Monitor)

[plantwomyn]

5. Unfortunately the farmers have known this was coming and very few did anything about it.

I lived in the Bay area through the 80s and the water wars were in full tilt even then. Since then, California farmers haven't seemed to make the moves that they need to in order to deal with the drying conditions. Seriously, after studying Permaculture for a year now, I have no idea why it isn't spreading all over California. If farmers had been using Permaculture for the last 3 years, the effects of the drought could have been deal with without the hardship and the landscape in California could have been altered permanently and for the better. I can't fault NorCal for keeping the water to themselves. There are areas of Southern Cal that have an abundance of water and instead of helping the valley ranchers, they ship feed to China. It's capitalism. There really are entire cities in California that aren't sustainable anymore, if they ever were.