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News and Other Articles That I've Found Interesting


​Apple Trees And Their Care

The Future of Farming Is Inside This Bomb Shelter

A Field Guide to North America’s Wild Crops

‘Botanical Sexism’ Could Be Behind Your Seasonal Allergies

California’s Wild Flower Hotline Provides the Latest Scoop on Superblooms

Monarch butterfly fans are clamoring for native milkweed. Here are 8 places to buy it

The Origins of 11 Easter Traditions

No yard? No problem. Help save the world by growing native plants in pots

The Farmers and Gardeners Saving the South’s Signature Green

Growing Edible Flowers in Your Garden

Beyond Fuyus: The World of Persimmon Varieties

The Ultimate Guide to the World's Food Museums

How a Korean-American Farmer Is Sharing Her Heritage Through Rare Seeds

Monarch Joint Venture Partnering to conserve the monarch butterfly migration

6 ways Californians can help save the iconic monarch butterfly

Researchers Find Possible Answer to Citrus Greening

What Good Are Ants? 4 Reasons We Can't Live Without Them

A Verdant Botanical Animation Takes a Macro View of Nature’s Cycles

An Innovative Installation Embeds Lights into a Five-Acre Field to Spur Crop Growth

Consortium wants to cut down L.A. County Arboretum trees to make room for storm water treatment

A master gardener transforms a South L.A. food desert into an edible oasis

On the Hunt for the Wild Relatives of America’s Favorite Produce

7 Weird and Wonderful Plants Discovered in 2020

Who Eucalyptized Southern California? (Includes Lost L.A.:  Descanso Gardens)

Amigo Bob Cantisano, towering figure in West Coast organic farming, dies at 69

Time for the Tlingit Potato

Legacy of Wonder -- Jim Folsom

Tumbleweed Christmas Tree

Christmas Tree Lane: The Origins of a Southern California Tradition

A master gardener transforms a South L.A. food desert into an edible oasis

Tracking Down the Long-Lost Orchards of the California Gold Rush

Meet Local Hero Nominee: Florence Nishida

Britain's newest variety of apple discovered by a walker

6 Crops You Might be Surprised Aren’t Native to the US

The Seed Saving Descendants

Centuries Later, America’s First Female Botanist Lives On in a Community Garden

Turnip Jack-o’-Lanterns Are the Root of All Evil

Jack O'Lantern Lore

Beyond Fuyus: The World of Persimmon Varieties​

LA Foodways: King Citrus and the Selling of the California Dream

Seeds of Hope in Uncertain Times

This Modern Farmer Turned His Concrete Backyard Into A Food Forest

A Brief History of Mashed Potatoes

Wine from the ‘Mother Vine’: A trio of L.A. winemakers are harvesting historic grapes at San Gabriel Mission

2020 GRANT RECIPIENT: The Learning Garden, Los Angeles CA

5 Edible Cacti and Succulents You Can Grow Indoors

Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet

Experts offer tips for creating a gorgeous native plant garden

Huitlacoche:  The Mexican fungal delicacy that makes corn taste like a mushroom

Centuries After Their Loss and Theft, Native American Seeds Are Reuniting With Their Tribes

Mojave Desert fire in August destroyed the heart of a beloved Joshua tree forest

How to Make Clothing Dye With Your Excess Harvest

​Man Spends 13 Years Transforming a Hedge into a Massive Dragon

The Therapeutic Power of Gardening

How Former Samurai and Farmers Cultivated the First Japanese Apples

A Plan to Grow 90,000 Trees in Los Angeles

UC Riverside researcher discovers first effective treatment for citrus-destroying disease

A Franken-Forest of Fruit Trees Is Growing on Governors Island

The Cherokee Chefs Bringing Back North America’s Lost Cuisine

Here’s What the Watermelon Was Up to Before It Tasted Good

In Mexico City, the Coronavirus Is Bringing Back Aztec-Era ‘Floating Gardens’

An Aerial Timelapse Captures One Million Begonias as They’re Woven Into an Ephemeral Tapestry

Barcelona Opera Reopens With An Audience Of Plants​

Floyd Zaiger, prolific fruit breeder who brought new flavors to our lives, dies at 94

The History of Popcorn: How One Grain Became a Staple Snack

A History of Southern Food with Chef Kevin Mitchell

The Cherokee Chefs Bringing Back North America’s Lost Cuisine

The World's First Quiet Urban Park is Opening in Taipei, Taiwan

Gardens Have Pulled America Out of Some of Its Darkest Times. We Need Another Revival.

They build gardens for the rich and famous. And they still get stopped by the police

How to Plant a Home Garden and ‘Free the Seed’

Your spring garden is candy to pests. Stop them before they start munching

Could L.A.'s Farming Past Be Its Future?

Supercharge your plants with leftover eggshells by brewing ‘shell tea’

Most Farmers in the Great Plains Don’t Grow Fruits and Vegetables. The Pandemic is Changing That.

Join the Million Gardens Movement
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Spring Swarms:  Honey Bees, Termites, Ants

Heirloom Potato Varieties

Preserve Your Quarantine Nature Walks With a DIY Herbarium

Snack Wisely: Discover Heirloom Cherokee Popcorn

At Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Is Still Growing

These 7 Companies Ship Unique Seeds for Your Quarantine Garden

Rains fuel above-average Southern California wildflower bloom
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DIY: Plant a victory garden now and grow your own groceries

10 pioneer-era apple varieties, thought extinct, found in Pacific Northwest

A Forest of Furniture Is Growing in England

10 things you can do to improve your home garden right now

Why Soviet Russia Named a Tomato After an American Celebrity

Cultivate Something Good – Your Garden and Your Well-Being

When the world feels scary, I want to garden. Here’s what to plant right now

​The Five Best Urban Tree Leaves to Use as Toilet Paper

‘Botanical Sexism’ Could Be Behind Your Seasonal Allergies

To build rich and beautiful soil, layer your yard with cardboard (seriously!)

The Dawn of American Plant Science Was Lost in a Botanist's Prolific Notes. You Can Help Digitize Them

How a Potato Is Fueling the Fight to Protect a National Monument

Planting for Pollinators

Is your tree on death’s door? Here’s how to tell

How often should you water your plants? When in doubt, check the soil

Certain plants are susceptible to pests. How to ID and end an infestation

The best soil for a thriving garden is water-absorbing and well-fed

On the Hunt for the Wild Relatives of America’s Favorite Produce

In the Noah’s Ark of citrus, caretakers try to stave off a fruit apocalypse

A Verdant Botanical Animation Takes a Macro View of Nature’s Cycles

Gourdlandia Is Truly a Gourd Place to Be

How to garden for bumblebees

Growing your own celery is easier than you think

‘Kiwi Queen’ Frieda Caplan, produce-industry pioneer, dies at 96

The Quiet Rescue of America’s Forgotten Fruit

New Crowdfarming Platform Looks to Help Sustainable Farmers

Venus Flytraps in Peril: Why Everyone's Favorite Carnivorous Houseplant Is Under Threat

70 Percent of the World’s Macadamia Nuts Came From One Tree in Australia

What’s in a name? When it comes to fruit, economic and genetic forces have a major say

Where to Find California’s Only Native Palm Trees

The Last Floating Farms of Mexico City

Sam Van Aken's Tree of 40 Fruit Looks a Dr. Seuss Illustration, But It's Real

Copenhagen Wants You to Forage on Its City Streets

The Syuxtun Collective: Restoring Reciprocity with Health & Nature

The Conservationist Saving India’s Heirloom Rice Varieties

A Popular Benefit of Houseplants Is a Myth.  The science is clear: Indoor vegetation doesn’t significantly remove pollutants from the air.

NASA Reveals A List Of The Best Air Purifying Plants For Your Home

A disease that could devastate citrus growers has reached San Bernardino County

Insect 'extinction event' will transform nature

L.A.’s free tree giveaway for yards and streets hopes to bring 90,000 new plantings
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L.A. plans to plant 90,000 trees in two years. What can we learn from its oldest trees?

Where are L.A.'s oldest planted trees? In its first arboretum, hidden in plain sight

Plant extinction 'bad news for all species'

A Pirate Botanist Helped Bring Hot Chocolate to England

Move over, Honeycrisp: New Cosmic Crisp apple to debut at grocery stores

What's the Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes?

If fire wipes out Joshua trees, other desert plants, this group has a plan

Scottish Singles Used to Spend Halloween Picking Kale.  The leafy green once foretold the future.

Joshua trees are California icons. Should they also be designated threatened species?

Forestry sector scrambles to recruit tree planters to sow millions — perhaps billions — more seedlings

City and preschool may have reached farm stand resolution

These California native plants will attract birds and wildlife to your garden

Joshua Tree: How One Woman’s Work Preserved the Desert

How One California Farmer Built an Online Tool to Address Food Waste

Your 2019 fall foliage guide

Five Famous Trees to Visit Around SoCal

How One Boston Hospital Is Feeding Patients Through Its Rooftop Farm

​Planting alternative backyard fruit trees in Southern California can help stop citrus threat

10 'Secret' Must-Visit Gardens in Southern California

14 Wondrous Fruits With Extraordinary Flavors

World's largest urban farm to open – on a Paris rooftop

Anxiety and depression: why doctors are prescribing gardening rather than drugs

Feast Your Eyes on These Delicate Glass Models of Decaying Fruit

Minnesota will pay homeowners to make their lawns bee-friendly

The uncertain fate of the San Fernando Valley’s last remaining commercial citrus grove

In Northern California, the Time Is Ripe for a Forgotten Apple’s Comeback

Tim Dundon, ‘Guru of Doo Doo,’ whose compost nourished Altadena’s gardens, dies at 77

Will we ever have to ask, ‘Where have all the flowers gone?’

Ethiopia Just Set the World Record for Most Trees Planted in a Day

With bitter foods, what you eat determines what you like to eat

Gum Drops and Candy Hearts are ... grape varieties?

How Dutch bus stops are helping bees

A History of School Gardens...And How the Model is Getting A Boost Today from Foodcorps

How Thoreau’s 19th-Century Observations Are Helping Shape Science Today

The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature​

After 6-Year Battle, Florida Couple Wins The Right To Plant Veggies In Front Yard

We depend on pollinators

Behind the story: She was reporting on roses — and discovered her green thumb

Meet the Man on a Quest to Document Every Apple in North America

Why deep watering may be the answer to your garden woes

Why tiny microbes may be a big factor in how climate change unfolds

Beaver Dam Pepper

Plant Blindness: Why Scientists Who Know Nature Are Becoming an Endangered Species

Everything you didn’t even know you wanted to know about celery

How Seed Saving Is Repairing a Painful Past for Native Americans

Every Spring, An Idyllic Iranian Town Turns Fields of Roses Into Rose Water

San Marzano Tomatoes

Exploring the origins of the apple

‘Botanical Sexism’ Could Be Behind Your Seasonal Allergies

Tomatoes tasted much better 100 years ago. Can their flavor be restored?

Redlove Apple

Reinventing the Tomato for Survival in a Changing World

The one gardening mistake you can’t afford to make

California Has Farmers Growing Weeds. Why? To Capture Carbon

How a Candy Craze Almost Wiped Out the Barrel Cactus

The Thorny Tale of America’s Favorite Botanist and His Spineless Cacti

15 Fascinating Facts About Honey Bees

To save the monarch butterfly, Mexican scientists are moving a forest 1,000 feet up a mountain

The bitter legal battle behind Georgia's sweet Vidalia onion

Arizona’s Most Unusual Cacti Have Their Own Fan Club

How Easter Egg Trees Almost Became an American Tradition

New invasive species found in Carlsbad, threatens to spread across Southwest

The farmer that saw his budding California tea farm go up in smoke

Vernal pools: Rains bring to life mini-ecosystem of button celery, Otay Mesa mint and fairy shrimp

California farmers and scientists race to combat a citrus disease infecting trees

The Promise and Perils of Resurrecting Native Americans’ Lost Crops

The Moroccan Food Forest That Inspired an Agricultural Revolution

Vienna's Unpredictable Vegetable Orchestra 

6 serious facts about the playful-looking roly-poly

Albino Ghost Trees Shouldn't Exist - But They Do

10 Amazing Facts About Cherry Blossoms

Kale joins the ranks of the annual 'Dirty Dozen' pesticide list

El Pueblo plaza doesn’t need another tropical fig tree. Plant a native coast live oak

Why Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap?

Tulips Cost More Than Houses During Dutch "Tulip Mania"

The Life of a Historic Los Angeles Tree Comes to an End

In the middle of a butterfly crisis, California sees a burst of painted ladies

Are hummingbird feeders safe for the birds?

Leaf Blowers and Activism

Source of citrus' sour taste is identified

12 plants that repel unwanted insects
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Researchers in England Are Criss-Crossing Cropland With Wildflowers
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In Ancient Rome, Citrus Fruits Were Status Symbols

Science in the Field: Tracking Wild Bumblebees in the Sierra Nevada

A wildflower super bloom could be sprouting — if it keeps raining

Monarch Butterfly Grove

Mesmerizing Collages From Produce You Can’t Find in Supermarkets

Scientists improve on photosynthesis by genetically engineering plants

Conservationists plant a 'super grove' of redwood trees cloned from ancient stumps

Why the black market for cacti and succulents is booming

The Eight Founder Crops and the Origins of Agriculture

A botanist criticized Tejon Ranch. So he got kicked out — along with 10,000 of his friends

15 things you didn't know about soil

How Giant, Intelligent Snails Became a Marker of Our Age
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A Taste of Ancient Farming:  Can food lovers save Mexico City’s nutrient-rich islands and the farmers who toil here?

​Trying leafy greens from a sweet potato plant

Reviving the Lost Tradition of Cooking Flowers

Mexico City's garden-lined highway is thriving, but not without criticism

Bursts of Stylized Flowers by ‘Ouizi’ Transform Buildings Into Floral Canvases
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When Cactus Destruction Is Imminent, These Rescuers Come Running

Beacon Food Forest:  This edible park is open to any and all foragers.  

Incredible Photos of Foods Growing (In Ways You’d Never Expect)

What a Gold Rush-era orchard could mean for the future of food

These California succulents are at the center of a massive smuggling ring

What’s the Origin of Jack-O’-Lanterns?
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This Seed Bank Preserves Biodiversity by Opening Its Doors to Farmers

The Potato Whisperer

You Can Find Clones of Isaac Newton's Apple All Over The World

The Global Potato: Food Futures of the Past
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Santos Museum of Economic Botany

What's Going On With the Monarchs?

Under Increasing Economic Pressure, US Farmers Seek Change in Next Farm Bill

Edible weeds rival kale for nutrition

How England Got Its Curvy Cucumbers Straightened Out

Urban farmers haven't given up in their fight to protect a South L.A. site from development

​Saving Mexico's Heirloom Corn With Gorgeous Furniture

Inside the World's Only Chile Pepper Research Institute

​How to Keep Plants Alive in This Blistering Summer Heat

​Why Are There Palm Trees in Los Angeles?

The Gnarled History of Los Angeles's Vineyards

City Life Gives Bees A Better Buzz (it's in Spanish - click on the box offering to translate)

15 Fascinating Facts About Honey Bees

Why Is A 'Pepper' Different From "Pepper'?  Blame Christopher Columbus

Meet the ‘Citrus Archaeologist’ Who Rediscovered Dozens of Ancient Plants​

The thrill of finding Steinbeck's magical lily on a botany outing to California's Central Coast

Don't be afraid:  You can grow strawberries at home
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America's Greatest Horticulturist Left Behind a Plum Mystery
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Superstar Dutch Designer Piet Oudolf

A Grass-Roots Movement For Healthy Soil Spreads Among Farmers

Ground-Breaking Discovery Made in Preventing Devastating Citrus Disease

Jeremy, The Lonely, Left-Twisting Snail, Dies — But Knows Love Before The End

​How your garden springs to life at night
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Why Do Leaves Change Color In the Fall?

LA's Palm Trees Are Dying and Changing the City's Famous Skyline
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​America's largest urban farm takes root in Pittsburgh

Caterpillars eat plastic bags

Avid gardeners know there’s still plenty to do during the winter

Science explains why refrigerators sap the flavor from ripe tomatoes


Behind the Monsanto Deal, Doubts About the GMO Revolution

Watch sunflowers dance under the sun (seriously)

It's 90 degrees in the shade - have you watered that tree?

The Dry Garden:  In the Backyard with Yvonne Savio

Don't Gravelscape LA by Mia Lehrer

Scientists have discovered that living near trees is good for your health

How soils form and age

A 17th-Century Stanchi Painting Reveals the Rapid Change in Watermelons through Selective Breeding

Mexican Cactus, Chinese Ginger Top List of Pesticide-Laced Produce

Dealing With Mandatory Water Restrictions

9%: Perspective on the California drought and landscape water use

Forage in the Garden, Not in What’s Left of the Wild

Solutions to Top 5 Tomato Problems

How Trees Talk to Each Other








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