Escondido nursery owner sues California as state destroys 32,000 plants

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A local owner of a nursery in Escondido has filed a lawsuit against the state of California in a federal court, claiming that state farming teams are destroying tens of thousands of its plants without compensation. Mark Collins, owner of Evergreen Wholesale, said state agriculture employees started destroying about 32,000 citrus plants in his nursery this week. The business has operated in Escondido for about 20 years and his family has been in …