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Portraitof the eastern edge of KCRW’s broadcast range

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Turn up the heat and listen to the live performance by Givers with much crackling while viewing.

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LA Sunrise

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Woke up just before 5:00 this morning, gathered my things wrapped in my Mexican blanket and trotted to my truck. It stalled when I tried to start it (it always does). The second time, the engine revved then settled into a heavy idle. Driving toward the interstate, I passed by Silver Lake Reservoir and under [...]

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First Annual Medlarama

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Earlier this week I joined in a work crew composed of the ag-nouveau proponents, Silver Lake Farms, Homegrown Evolution, Winnetka Farms and Joseph Shuldiner. We harvested a crop of Medlar from an orchard in the hills north of Tehachapi. The history of the fruit and our intersection with it are beautifully described by David Karp [...]

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Medlar : Popular 18th Century Persian Fruit

Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Covergirl of the 2008 January – February California Rare Fruit Growers’s journal “Fruit Gardener,” the Medlar is a fruit in the rose family that must be over-ripened almost to the point of rotting to reach its peak of flavor. It is This process is called bletting. I’ve been hearing about these fruits and was [...]

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It blooms once, then expires

Friday, October 29, 2010

I’ve been totally intrigued by California native plants since moving to Los Angeles a year ago. One of the total wonders here is the Century Plant : Agave Americana. It blooms once at the end of its life cycle then sends out growth from it’s root structure after its bloom has dried and leaves withered. [...]

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