Zócalo Public SquareDelta Farmer Russell van Loben Sels – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Delta Farmer Russell van Loben Sels https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/01/23/delta-farmer-russell-van-loben-sels/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/01/23/delta-farmer-russell-van-loben-sels/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:01:20 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=52382 Russell van Loben Sels is a fourth-generation farmer, vice president and CFO of Amistad Ranches, and secretary and CFO of Esperanza Enterprises. For over 40 years, he has farmed Bartlett pears, tomatoes, wine grapes, alfalfa, and grains in the California Delta. Before participating in a panel on the future of the Delta, he talked ducks (shooting them and wearing them on ties), women’s basketball (his favorite spectator sport), and the most delicious ways to eat pears in the Zócalo green room.

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