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Travel dilemmas: Farms plant getaway ideas

Question: Can you please tell me where I can stay on a working farm in California and do chores such as feeding the animals, milking the cows and staying in a nice farmhouse?

- Gabriel Yanez, Newhall, Calif.

Answer: Amid the glitz and glam of California, we often forget that agriculture is a top industry in the Golden State, its 77,500 farms bringing in about $47 billion, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture 2015-2016 report.

"California has the most farm stays of any state, having pushed out heritage states like Vermont that

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