Larner Seeds: https://larnerseeds.com/

Books by Judith Lowry

1. Gardening with a Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home
   https://www.amazon.com/Gardening-Wild-Heart-Californias-Landscapes-ebook/dp/B00719LLQA?ref_=ast_author_dp
2. The Landscaping Ideas of Jays: A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration Garden
   https://www.amazon.com/Landscaping-Ideas-Jays-Backyard-Restoration/dp/0520241649?ref_=ast_author_dp
3. California Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Evergreen Huckleberries to Wild Ginger (Regional Foraging Series)
   https://www.amazon.com/California-Foraging-Flavorful-Evergreen-Huckleberries-ebook/dp/B00NG3QBV0?ref_=ast_author_dp

Books discussed in the podcast:

1. Homesteading: How to Find New Independence on the Land by Gene Logsdon: https://www.amazon.com/Homesteading-How-Find-Independence-Land/dp/0878570683
   Gene Logsdon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Logsdon
2. The Organic Gardener by Catherine Osgood Foster: https://www.amazon.com/organic-gardener-Catharine-Osgood-Foster/dp/0394472101

Influential people

1. Molly Brown - Bolinas School of Botanical Art - Molly brown: https://www.mollybrownartist.org
2. Craig Dremann -  Redwood Seed Company: https://www.ecoseeds.com/
3. Gurney Norman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney_Norman

Topher in conversation with Anne Hilton of California Peony Company.

https://www.californiapeonycompany.com/

Topher Delaney in conversation with Alexis Koefoed, Farmer, activist, and owner of Soul Food Farm.

https://www.soulfoodfarm.com/

Topher Delaney in conversation with Robin Parer, owner of Geraniaceae and grower of Erodiums, Geraniums, and Pelargoniums.

Ways to get in contact with Robin Parer:

https://www.geraniaceae.com/

Photo by Saxon Holt.

Topher Delaney in conversation with Matt Kondolf, Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at the University of California Berkeley.

Garden The Knowledge. Topher Delaney in conversation with Martin Bournhonesque.

Topher Delaney in conversation with David Duskin, Public Artists, and co-founder of Petaluma River Park

http://www.davidduskin.com/

https://www.petalumariverpark.org/

Teaching Stones, Almaden Library and Community Center, San Jose, CA

Norman Lear Monument, Emerson College, Boston, MA

Castro Valley Creek Daylighting Project, Castro Valley Library, Castro Valley, CA

Thousand Ways, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA

Books that have inspired David:

The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell

Tao Te Ching, Lao-tzu, translation by Stephen Mitchell 

Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Finnegans Wake, James Joyce

Body Watching, Desmond Morris

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Paintings that have inspired David:

Annunciation, Cortona, Fra Angelico 

Annunciation, San Marco, Fra Angelico 

Otow Orchard

In 1911,  Kitchitaro Kawanoand his wife, Momi, purchased 20 acres of land in the Rosedale Colony Tract of Loomis and named it Rosedale Farm. 

After Kitchitaro's death in 1939, his widow and youngest daughter, Helen, ran the farm. During World War II, Helen and her husband, Seiichi Otow, were interned at Tule Lake Relocation Center.

After the war, they returned to the farm to find that it was not in a condition to provide them an income. Seiichi opened a radio repair shop in Sacramento while reviving the orchard.

The Otow family, including Seiichi, Helen, June, Christine and Wesley cared for and harvested the orchard and packed all the fruit on the farm until the 1970s.

Today, Chris Otow Kuratomi and her husband, Tosh Kuratomi, respond to their customers' preferences with a much more diverse variety of fruits and vegetables. They continue to specialize in the ancient art of dried persimmons known as hoshigaki.

Surrounded by development, they strive to honor their family's commitment to the farm. The orchard takes on different personalities through the seasons and continues to provide local residents with high-quality fresh food.

They grow the following fruits + Vegetables:

Apples:

Apricots

Asian Pears

Blackberries

Cherries

Citrus

Figs          

Garden Vegetables

Grapes

Jujube

Kiwi

Mulberries

Nectarines

Nuts

Pears  

Persimmon

Plum

Plum

Pomegranates

Quince

Squash

Topher Delaney and Park Ranger Yenyen Chan discuss the significance of the Chinese in the early history of Yosemite and our National Park Service.

Resources discussed in the podcast:

Chinese Built Roads @ Yosemite:

Pilgrimage to Sing Mountain:

For more information on the Yosemite Sing Peak Pilgrimage, visit the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California website: www.chssc.org

To request a Ranger Program with Yenyen Chan, contact Public Information Officer - https://www.nps.gov/yose/contacts.htm

If you have any stories, letters, or other artifacts from family members who may have worked in Yosemite or the surrounding areas during the 1840's onwards, please email: [email protected]

Photo Credit: Christine White Loberg

Topher Delaney in conversation with Joanna Letz, founder and owner-of Bluma Flower Farm, a rooftop farm in Berkeley, CA.   

Resources discussed in the podcast: