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Val Verde also has a complicated social history that has been preserved. For example, the gardeners are third generation Mexican-American gardeners who have earned their positions through family and apprenticeship. They have been taught, father-to-son, about each Val Verde plant, its history, and its care. Theirs is an invisible history of caretakers who have cared for Val Verde and passed its heritage from hand to hand down through time.
Presently there is no agreed-upon mechanism for securing the preservation
of this nationally important California landscape. Today, a non-profit
foundation is managing the site and dealing with the legal issues surrounding
its future.
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