Tag: luther burbank
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April 29, 2008 05:19 AM EDT --
"It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while." . . .
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June 25, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
I took my sweatshirt off, folded it, scooted it underneath me for padding against the gnarled, wooden trunk of the ancient wisteria vine and sat back down. Gazing up through the light-green foliage, . . .
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March 28, 2007 04:15 PM EDT --
Having spent some multiple of decades working in the nursery business, I have reached a plateau that I like to call “semi-retirement” (a term that I shamelessly purloined from James Brown). . . .
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April 25, 2009 07:03 PM EDT --
(Author's Note: Edited 5:12 pm 04/28/2009 to correct link to Western Sonoma County Historical Society.)
This morning I journeyed down to Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm in Sebastopol, Sonoma . . .
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December 13, 2008 11:38 AM EST --
Spring's sweet face has long since flowered and faded... Most of summer's luscious fruits have been devoured. Those unchosen remain, hanging from branch and vine like shriveled, . . .
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March 07, 2009 02:50 PM EST --
In 1859 near Lancaster, Massachusetts, a 10 year-old boy sat on a hill overlooking the railroad tracks as a locomotive pulling several boxcars went by...
The young, intelligent and precocious lad had . . .
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May 17, 2009 10:00 AM EDT --
There were a couple of local, annual events that you could always count on when I was growing up in the Northern California (Sonoma County) town of Santa Rosa. One was the Sonoma . . .
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October 04, 2009 08:46 PM EDT --
In answer to the call for assistance put to me by a friend, fellow member and fellow past Co-Chair of the Farm Advisory Committee at the annual fall open house event, I traveled the 40 or so miles to . . .
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January 21, 2008 11:53 AM EST --
". . .we plant-people are very strange. . ."
(First in a series of previously-published articles expressly republished here on Gather for my many new . . .
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December 15, 2008 01:31 PM EST --
What an absolutely wonderful surprise was in store for me, and I had no idea, absolutely no idea at all!
On Friday, December 12, a good friend and I travelled up to the North Bay Area, to a quaint . . .
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April 09, 2009 06:19 AM EDT --
I had to chair a board meeting for the Western Sonoma County Historical Society day before yesterday that was being held in the "Caretaker's Cottage" at Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm . . .
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June 05, 2009 03:09 PM EDT --
Tuesday last, I chaired a board meeting of the Western Sonoma County Historical Society held each month in the "Caretaker's Cottage" at Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Experiment Farm in Sebastopol, Northern . . .
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February 11, 2009 08:44 PM EST --
Yesterday, I had occasion to be in the area of Sebastopol here in Sonoma County, Northern California and, on an impulse, I decided to stop in for a quick visit to the historical site where I volunteer . . .
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February 20, 2009 06:13 PM EST --
I had three hours to kill yesterday in-between taking my mother grocery shopping and working on a friend's computer so, as usual, I stopped by Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm in Sebastopol for . . .
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May 24, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
I had about an hour before the first meeting of the year of the Cemetery Walk Committee was to start yesterday afternoon, so, as usual, I made a quick stop at Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Experiment . . .
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May 28, 2009 04:08 PM EDT --
I didn't include these photos in my last photo-essay on the Farm (you can find that article HERE ) mostly because of the horrendously SLOOOOOWWWW upload speed I have on my stupid dial-up connection . . .
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September 07, 2007 06:43 AM EDT --
Some of you might have noticed that, for the last couple of days, I haven't been around Gather much... I have an excellent excuse for this: I've been doing a lot of work for the historical society . . .
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December 10, 2008 07:56 PM EST --
Those of you who know me here on Gather know that I am an active volunteer at both the Western Sonoma County Historical Society and its offspring the Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm Advisory Committee. . . .
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May 04, 2008 12:17 PM EDT --
(Author's Note: "Gold Ridge Farm" -- located in the Northern California town of Sebastopol -- was the location where the famed horticulturalist and plant breeder, Luther Burbank . . .
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February 04, 2009 06:18 PM EST --
Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm in Sebastopol (where the famed horticulturalist and plant breeder, Luther Burbank, carried out his thousands of experiments over some 50 years between the late . . .
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