Balakian Farms in ReedleyStory by Christine Vartanian Datian | Photos courtesy of Balakian Farms Fourth-Generation Farmer and entrepreneur Amber Balakian’s great-grandparents were immigrants who fled the Armenian Genocide more than a century ago. They settled in Reedley, a small San Joaquin Valley farming town, where they planted vineyards. Balakian Farms was founded in 1925 by Zadig Balakian. His son, John …