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The Board of Trustees of West Hills Community College District, recognizing the changing technical, economic, social and cultural environment in which their students and the agricultural industry relate to the local and global society, have created the Farm of the Future Program.
In the late 1880’s, Billy Sloan raised horses for San Francisco and named this area Pleasant Valley. In 1924, Mr. Buster Allen began working for Mr. Jack Harris running a cotton gin in the Imperial Valley. He moved to Coalinga in 1926 as foreman for the Pleasant Valley Farming Company to assist in raising the first cotton crop. Mr. Allen purchased the PVF Company in 1963 and expanded the farm to almost 15,000 acres by 1975. He diverted Los Gatos Creek through the area we now farm and ran water down to Turk Station near I-5.
In 2001, the Allen Family donated 230 acres to West Hills College for use as a college farm. The generosity of the Allen Family and especially Mrs. Dorothy Allen is a gift to all who visit this farm.