Scott Kleinrock
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Want to recreate this wavy meadow look? The “lawn” in front of the Munger Research Center comes from rolls of “Native Mow Free” sod, a mix of three grasses field-grown together. Photo by Kate Lain.…
Only at Home: 2011 Huntington Ranch Symposium
Friday, November 18, 2011.
Marking the second year of Ranch operations, this one-day symposium focuses on aspects of urban agriculture that can't be…
Jon Verdick, owner of Encanto Farms Nursery in San Diego, will provide an introduction to propagating, growing, caring for, and—above all—enjoying figs, a fruit treasured throughout the world. Free;…
Tues Aug. 30, 7:30 PM at Friend's Hall (Free)
Enjoy the freshest, tastiest salad fixings and save money at the same time. Tara Kolla of Silver Lake Farms will share tips for propagating, growing, and…
The Huntington would like to invite applications for Urban Ecosystem Agriculture, a train-the-trainer course to be held between September 3, 2011 and January 21, 2012. This series is designed to…
Ecologically-informed methods of urban agriculture can ease workload and create a healthier, more diverse garden. Attracting pollinators with native plants and interplanting herbs with fruit trees…
I want to quickly introduce you to one of the beauties of the Fall-planted vegetable garden: Osaka Purple Mustard. This Japanese mustard green has a spicy, wasabi-tinged taste that is great in stir…
Sweet alyssum is a common flowering plant, easily available in seed or in pony packs at your local nursery. It is usually planted in the fall in Southern California. This is what it looks like today…
After a bit of a break to finish planting fruit trees in the food forest and work on Ranch programming for the next year, we are back to blogging and look forward to posting much more regularly about…
Grow Your Vegetables Like Weeds and Thank Your Weeds for the Mulch (and all of this under Fruit Trees!): The Experimental Food Forest at the Huntington Ranch
Think of a wild forest. What does a…
Welcome to the first post on the salad factory, an experiment to see if in both quantitative and qualitative terms, container gardening is "worth it." It is an easy to set up, relatively inexpensive…
With the launch of the Blog, I wanted to take the chance to thank everyone who helped make last weekend's public launch of the Huntington Ranch such a great two days. This includes all of our…
Welcome to the Huntington Ranch Blog, the online home of The Huntington's new urban agriculture project. In the first decades of the 20th century, Henry Huntington's San Marino property was a working…