Bacon Island is 5,400 acres of what is arguably some of the richest reclaimed farmland on earth. It is 13 miles east of Antioch and 13 miles west of Stockton smack dab in the middle of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.The Old River that parts ways with the main channel of the San Joaquin River west of the Mossdale Crossing snakes its way past Bacon Island on one side while the Middle River — that splits from the old River once it makes its way out of Lathrop — flows on the other side. The Connection Slough and Woodward Island Canal complete the encircling of the dark rich soil of the island now owned by Zurich Insurance Group — a Swiss firm that bought the island originally not to farm but with a grandiose plan to store water developed by Californian and American taxpayers and sell it to the highest bidder.In a sense, they are doing just that.