IN 1968, KEN PURYEAR, a dentist in a little town north of Sacramento with a keen interest in horticulture, got an offer he couldn't refuse.Puryear and the man who would later become his lifelong partner in the nursery business, Corky Anderson, had gotten free pistachio seed from the USDA Plant Introduction Station in Chico, CA, and were growing 30,000 pistachio plants in a hothouse on Puryear's property. There were only 400 acres planted in the entire state at the time, and the two men were definitely beginners.
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