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Gardeners and naturalists are remarkably ardent self-directed, life-long learners and doers. And the winter season is well-adapted to gardeners’…

Little Red Hen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization serving children and adults with developmental disabilities. They have five Chico retail locations…

Lately we’ve been talking about fall, which puts us in mind of harvest—the season we like to think we’re reaping what we’ve sown, at least if things go…

We’re celebrating more “good migrations” this week, this time in California’s heartland. As if in Kansas, early immigrants to California's great valley…

Today we head up the road to Lake Tahoe in the Roaring Twenties, when the rich were very rich and no one else counted for much. Sound familiar?A century…

We head up the road this week to Big Sur.The poet Robinson Jeffers described this redwood and rock coast as “that jagged country which nothing but a…

Think July 4, 1776, Independence Day for the United States, and sights and sounds crowd the imagination—the Liberty Bell, American flag, George…

Many of us desperately need a change of scene, all at the same time, some sort of post-Camp Fire paradigm shift. You know someone needs to get away when…

We head up the road into the Sierra Nevada again, this fine snowy week—to Tahoe, again, more specifically, in search of the perfect winter timeout in…

We continue visiting Southern California’s Channel Islands this week. Privately owned Santa Catalina Island, once owned by William Wrigley, of chewing gum…