On a small parcel of land tucked into a Los Angeles canyon, surrounded by $20 million to $30 million Beverly Hills mansions, a piece of Southern California history lives on behind a chain-link fence.

Many growers are now making the difficult decision to sell orange groves that have been in their families for ... populated scarcely 275,000 acres (111,288 hectares) last year, and California has ...

developers are increasingly building homes on what were once orange groves. Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter.

Many growers are now making the difficult decision to sell orange groves that have been in their ... populated scarcely 275,000 acres last year, and California has eclipsed Florida as the nation ...