This is what my boss told us when I was working with an organic chain store years back, a true story…… for your knowledge.

“I have driving to Cuyama Peak a couple of times whenever I am in Los Angeles (2 hours including uphill driving).

Cayuma Orchards side business is growing hays for horses; their hay land is quite far from the apple orchards. Hay needs crop rotation, and hay growing requires lots of pesticides and fungicides.

When the hay land is needed to ‘rest’, Cuyama will lease their land out to big carrot farmers because they need the carrot to SWEEP their land off pesticides.

Carrot is one of the best sweeper.

I am unsure of commercial carrot farming in Australia, but for sure I know something of carrot growing in California.

Now you know I don’t eat conventional carrot even if I am outside.

By the way, I have also sold lots of raw land in southern California and a few hay land. Land buyers always want to know what has the land been used before. For example, land with high contamination are pig farms, petroleum or oil storage, rubbish dump, etc.

Compulsory cleaning up the land of toxic contamination is a requirement under California law, land cleaning costs more than the land costs.”