By your criteria, the Central Valley was never a great climate for growing things. A century ago there was not enough water in the San Joaquin valley, and peopl

By your criteria, the Central Valley was never a great climate for growing things. A century ago there was not enough water in the San Joaquin valley, and people were talking about getting fresh water from hundreds of miles away. I assume your opinion is probably that the water projects in California were all mistakes, but it’s not accurate to say that at some point the Central Valley was naturally ideal for growing things without artificial irrigation from far away. but “does not require artificial irrigation” was not what I meant by “ideal climate.”