George Denny purchased the land in 1986, and brought his young family out from San Francisco to have a look.  Everyone agreed it needed some work, and with the help of a young entrepreneur starting a leveling business, they began carving fields into the landscape. ​​Ted de Braga realigned the canals until the entire property could be irrigated with a single ditch circling the fields.  Ted stuck around to try out farming, and has grown 100 million pounds of wild rice since. In 2022, George ret...