Snake gourds and guava adorn unique California farm
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RANCHO SANTA FE, California  - Tom Chino thinks hard when asked if he worries about the future of his family's famous California farm, then plucks a word from his ancestral Japanese to answer.
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By The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 23--Richly colored and sweet tasting, plums are rolling out of the central San Joaquin Valley packinghouses this time of year.   California is the nation's leading producer of plums, growing 95% of the supply.
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Zach Plante is close with his parents &#151; he plays baseball with them and, on weekends, helps with work in the small vineyard they keep at their northern California home.
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TV chefs are inspiring the nation to use plant pots, allotments and even window sills to provide fresh and exotic vegetables for our plates.
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Investors are searching for a holy grail that symbolizes wealth in both profits and whatâs good for the environment.
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Scientists exploring the western slopes of the Andes in northern Peru have found seeds of domesticated squash from almost 10,000 years ago.
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By Malaika Fraley, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep. 11--The Sunol Water Temple Agricultural Park welcomed the public to its plush grounds Sunday for a harvest celebration highlighting East Bay farmers.
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On a small family farm an hour&#39;s drive from the Supreme Court, Juanita Swedenburg grows grapes and makes wine, which she sells to the tourists who pay her winery a visit.
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Cambodia's farmers divine their season's prospects by observing the eating habits of two bovine shamans at a royal banquet. This year, the sacred cows had bad moos
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MONTEREY, Calf.Â -- An invasive water mold has killed thousands of coastal oaks on California's Central Coast and will soon wipe out an ancient species, the tan oak, from Monterey County.
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Mealy apples, boxed mashed potatoes, frozen veggie mixes and suspicious meats drive many a college student to the cereal and bagel bins. But dining halls from Bates College in Maine to the University of California at Santa Cruz are improving their food and helping their local agricultural economies by going straight to the farm.
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By Lisa Heyamoto, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--To stand on the corner of Emerald Vista and Feickert drives in Elk Grove and look up is to see a sight straight out of a nature show.
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In California, traditional ranchers still use dogs to move flocks of sheep. But hobbyists are getting into the activity as well.
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One of the great names in  California quality wines wants to sell off the vineyards that  made it famous and devote itself to producing the mass-produced  wines it once mocked.
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By Chuck Mueller, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Feb.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Mar. 11--SOLANO COUNTY -- This seasonal pool, no more than 8 inches deep, has harbored tadpole shrimp for hundreds of thousands of years, Matt Gause said before wading into its grassy fringes in search of the wriggling invertebrates.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.