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AirTalk is off this week, so we\\u2019ll be supplying our podcast listeners with reruns of our Southern California history segments. Today\\u2019s episode is on the Southern California\\u2019s expansive orange farming. If you\\u2019d like to suggest a topic for a future SoCal history segment, email it to atcomments@laist.com.\\xa0

You ever wonder why Orange County is named Orange County? The answer is actually fairly simple, it\\u2019s because of that citrus fruit that was being farmed in the area and its neighboring counties; oranges, and other citrus, became a key part of Southern California\\u2019s booming economy from the late 19th Century and for most of the 20th. Although citrus orchards aren\\u2019t as plentiful nowadays, dropping in size, you\\u2019ll still find residential growers around the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, and the Inland Empire. Today on AirTalk, we offer a primer on Southern California citrus with\\xa0Vince Moses,CEO of the museum/preservation consulting firm VinCate and Associates, and\\xa0Benjamin Jenkins,\\xa0University of La Verne associate professor of history and book author\\xa0on the subject.