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Drive up around Sonora and you see them, gleaming like nuggets to a gold miner. Specialty farms dot the landscape in increasing numbers, producing wine grapes, apples, olives, llamas and other crops and livestock.
Barry Peterson was looking for something new after 20 years with the Modesto Irrigation District. He and his wife, Shana, decided to take their competition barbecue team and turn it into a business.