When Reynolds Fleming and his family bought a 20-acre orchard in Ojai’s East End, few knew a potential “citrus apocalypse“ (so called by the Los Angeles Times) was quietly spreading throughout Southern California.

Though he hadn’t worked in citrus before, the undertaking seemed an ideal combination of his aptitudes for science, design, innovation and environmentalism. Fleming didn’t just want to do farming. He wanted to understand it, to quantify it, to make it better and eventually to teach it…

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