FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – By now, many have already made final preparations for Thanksgiving meals, but if it wasn’t for local farming, many would feel a pinch on the dinner table. The San Joaquin Valley is home to thousands of farmers, growing foods people would find on their Thanksgiving dinner table. “That would be things like winter squash, like butternut squash and so forth. We have some pomegranates. We've got nuts. We have dried fruit for your charcuterie boards, and we got some olive oil,” Farmer Joe Del Bosque said. Joe Del Bosque owns a farm in Western Fresno County. He said some of his crops are making it onto Thanksgiving dinner tables. “We do grow tomatoes that are canned. So if you're doing sauces and, you know, salsas and things, yeah, definitely. It could have come from our farm,” Del Bosque said. Foods like turkey, sweet potatoes, sweet corn, almonds, dried fruit, wine, garlic and onions are all raised locally. “It's about 75% of the nation's fruits and about a third of the nation's vegetables grown right here. So we grow just about everything you can imagine that would show up on your plate,” Fresno County Farm Bureau’s Ryan Jacobsen said. Crops grown locally aren’t only ending up on Thanksgiving dinner tables in the San Joaquin Valley. “I am pretty certain that almost every American eats something on a daily basis that originated within our backyard here of the San Joaquin Valley. It's very likely where we're standing right now that within a 50 to 75 mile radius that every American's eating something that was grown right here,” Jacobsen said. Without the San Joaquin valley and its crops, Jacobsen said, “You would see incredible absence of the diversity of the products available if it wasn't for the San Joaquin Valley, simply because there are so many commodities that we produce.”