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Farmers in The Delta: Deep Connections to Rich Agricultural History

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If you draw an imaginary line from the San Francisco Bay Area east to Stockton, then north to Sacramento, then back out to the Bay Area you'd have a triangle filled with a puzzle of waterways and islands that make up the California Delta. It's where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers come together -- the center of California's water distribution system for farms and people -- and a focus of decades and decades of fights over water. Today, in the first of a four part series, reporter Lisa Morehouse introduces us to people who live and work there.

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