FIELD teams up with company to teach sustainable water management in desert
As California’s drought continues, with fewer fields planted because irrigation water isn’t available, one company is promoting an unlikely source for water — the Mojave Desert. And FIELD — the Farmworkers Institute of Education & Leadership Development headquartered in Tehachapi — has teamed up with owners of a desert ranch to provide a new program to teach sustainable water management and conservation. Cadiz Ranch is a 45,000-acre property in what some might call the middle of nowhere. The ranch is about 190 miles southeast of Tehachapi in San Bernardino County, south of the Mojave National Preserve and northeast of Joshua Tree National Park.