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From the Homestead Kitchen: California Lettuce Production and the Popularity of Salads in the 1920s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 30, 2020December 30, 2020
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“The Hanging Gardens of Southern California”: Edwin G. Hart and the Avocado Subdivisions of Hacienda Heights and La Habra Heights, 1913-1930

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 28, 2020December 30, 2020
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The Root of the Problem: How One Pest Upended the Global Wine Industry

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  • Posted on June 4, 2020December 30, 2020
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From the Homestead Kitchen: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Sunkist’s Lemon Cake Pie

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 2, 2020December 30, 2020
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That’s a Wrap: Movie Night at the California Valencia Orange Show, Anaheim, 30 May 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 30, 2020December 29, 2020
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The Unfurling Story of the Homestead’s Grapevines

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 27, 2020December 29, 2020
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Holy Guacamole: The Fifth Annual Avocado Show, Whittier, 14-19 May 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 19, 2020December 29, 2020
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Working the Land: A Letter from the Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange to DeWitt Clinton Sawyier, 23 March 1898

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 23, 2020December 29, 2020
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Working the Land: “California Wine-Making” in a Harper’s Weekly Supplement, 9 March 1889

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 9, 2020December 29, 2020
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Working the Land: “California Orange Primer,” 11 February 1907

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  • Posted on February 11, 2020December 29, 2020
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