The Golden State

 A fantastic picture from space on Aug 18th of California.

The big green part in the middle is "the central valley". 

Our place is about halfway between Los Angeles (lower grey area on coast) and the Salton Sea (big salt lake in the lower right).

This is from Wikipedia.

The Central Valley is one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.^[50][5] More than 230 crops are grown there.^[5] On less than 1 percent of the total farmland in the United States, the Central Valley produces 8 percent of the nation's agricultural output by value: US$43.5 billion in 2013.^[51] California's farms and ranches earned almost $50 billion in 2018.^[52] The valley's productivity relies on irrigation from surface water and badly depleted underground aquifers.^[53] About one-sixth of the US' irrigated land is in the Central Valley.^[54]

Virtually all non-tropical crops are grown in the Central Valley, which is the primary source for produce throughout the United States, including tomatoes, grapes, cotton, apricots, and asparagus.^[55] Six thousand almond growers produced more than 600 million pounds (270×10⁶ kg) in 2000, about 70 percent of the world's supply and nearly 100 percent of domestic production.^[56][57]