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galleta meadows
Here are five of the best ways to absorb all that this expansive desert park has to offer.
Mammoth Consolidated Mine
Here are six of the best road trips for exploring mining history in Southern and Central California.
Lake Elsinor
Here are six of the best places to witness the super bloom.
Rather than let the fruit from orange and lemon trees go to waste, the non-profit Food Forward formed in 2009 to gather fruit from trees throughout the region and donates fruit to local food banks. 2014. | Courtesy of Angel City Press
Food Forward is a Southern California nonprofit that "rescues" fresh local produce from rotting away and diverts to the tables of those who do not have access to fresh food. Read their thoughts on the state of food in L.A. and beyond in this Q&A.
Azteca Restaurant and Lounge
Here are five of the best places in SoCal where the spirit of The King lives on.
Underwood Family Farms | Kent Kanouse/Creative Commons
Ventura County is the nation’s eleventh largest county in crop value, despite its close location to the country’s second most populous city. How do they do it?
Food--don't waste it | Courtesy of the Library of Congress
World War I changed America. It also left behind lessons that we should still heed today — especially when it comes to our relationship with food.
#GoodFoodLACounty Summer Lunch Program | Linus Shentu
Food Policy Councils help connect the dots between the fields and our forks. They are convening diverse people across the food chain to discuss good food practices and policies that result in healthier populations.
Twenty-four blackbirds chocolate
Here are five of the best places in SoCal to indulge in chocolate flights, drinking chocolate, craft chocolate and much more.
Dorothea Lange photographerd a family working on their El Monte small farm homestead as part of the Subsistence Homestead Program | Courtesy of Angel City Press
For more than four decades, Los Angeles County was America's top agricultural producer. What happened? Author Rachel Surls gives readers a preview of her book chronicling L.A.'s agricultural history and prospects.
Patricia Baltazar harvests in a field that would eventually be part of the 105/Century Freeway. 1986. | Courtesy of Angel City Press
Farming was at the center of life in Los Angeles from the time of its founding in 1781, an aspect of local history important well into the mid-twentieth century, when Los Angeles County was the top agricultural county in the nation.
santa anita park
Where to explore the hidden histories of the Second World War along our coast, upon our peaks and at our border.
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