Faced with drought, a wine region in central California looks to develop a spaceport
The drought in the West and climate change have smaller cities rethinking their economies, especially if their main business is agriculture. On California’s Central Coast, one town is trying to diversify beyond its main moneymaker – grapes and wine. … Lynn Hamilton [a professor of agribusiness at nearby Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo] says … “The attitude here, it seems to be – until recently – that, oh, we’re just a rainy season away from being saved. And I think people are now starting to realize that that’s not true any longer.”