Taking Tejon passes, they began new lives as fruit and vegetable pickers on truck farms in the San Joaquin Valley.
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Farming, especially orchards and truck farms, was common within the present city limits from at least the 1890s to 1940s.
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After her birth, the Ryan family moved to California, and in 1914 settled on a small truck farm in Cerritos ).
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No doubt, Italian immigrants to America brought seeds with them and established broccoli rabe in their home gardens and truck farms.
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[ There was ] a small truck farm and some cotton was raised, according to memorandums of the day.
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Interspersed between these and other, lesser gentleman estates were the truck farms that supplied fruit, vegetables, and dairy products to Baltimore city.
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Japanese Americans were a significant ethnic group in the vegetable trade, due to the number of successful Japanese American truck farms across Southern California.
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Truck farms covered the area and a wide variety of locally raised produce, as well as fresh meat, poultry, and dairy products were available.
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The truck farms were successful in raising strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes, beans, peas, watermelons, asparagus, squash, cucumbers and thousands of acres of Heart of Gold cantaloupes.
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By the late 1850s the area had become noted for its truck farms, sending dairy products as well as vegetables to Chicago on the railroad.
