Last April, California’s governor declared, “The drought emergency is over,” but already, less than a year later, in the middle of a warm, dry winter, we are on the cusp of another such “emergency.” ...

She may be 81 years old — with a good excuse for sitting around and not doing much — but Gina di Nino never stops working, and even makes her own pasta by hand from semolina flour.  ̶...

When Idan Cohen’s grandmother, at the age of twelve, emigrated with her family from Germany to Israel in 1933, she could hardly have imagined a certain sequence of events that she would set in ...

It seems that there are spider webs all over my yard  as well as in the Santa Clarita area where my children live.  What kind of spiders are they?    I have read about brown spiders that can be dange...

The La Tuna Canyon fire in the first week of September, which burned over 7,000 acres, was the largest wildfire in the history of Los Angeles.  Because of maintaining fire-defensible space around the...

Are your apples asymmetrical? Are your blueberries behind in their ripening schedule? Is the growth of your strawberries stunted? The problem might be insufficient bee activity. When bees are abundan...

Some of you might remember a book entitled “Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche.”  Published in 1982, it was on the best seller list for over a year and sold more than a million copies.  I wa...