I once listed a house in Kingman for a family and he had a fair sized greenhouse, maybe 40 x 20’, half underground, that he grew nothing but citrus trees in.
Have you ever heard of this:
What drove a man to carve out 10 acres of underground gardens?
Baldasare Forestiere spent 40 years of his life, from 1906 until his death in 1946, carving the many pathways, skylights and rooms out of the earth. He did this all by hand and with no blueprints. Interesting reading about this place can be found here:
Forestiere Underground Gardens
Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the page for a link to the Underground Gardens' own website.
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California Historical Landmark No. 916 FORESTIERE UNDERGROUND GARDENS - Here, beneath the hot, arid surface of the San Joaquin Valley, Baldasare Forestiere (1879-1946) began in the early 1900s to sculpt a fantastic retreat. Excavating the hardpan by hand, he created a unique complex of underground rooms, passages, and gardens which rambled throughout a ten-acre parcel. His work is being preserved as a living monument to a creative and individualistic spirit unbounded by conventionality.
Location: 5021 W Shaw Ave, Fresno
Just down the street from where I live!