Larner Seeds: https://larnerseeds.com/

Books by Judith Lowry

1. Gardening with a Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home
   https://www.amazon.com/Gardening-Wild-Heart-Californias-Landscapes-ebook/dp/B00719LLQA?ref_=ast_author_dp
2. The Landscaping Ideas of Jays: A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration Garden
   https://www.amazon.com/Landscaping-Ideas-Jays-Backyard-Restoration/dp/0520241649?ref_=ast_author_dp
3. California Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Evergreen Huckleberries to Wild Ginger (Regional Foraging Series)
   https://www.amazon.com/California-Foraging-Flavorful-Evergreen-Huckleberries-ebook/dp/B00NG3QBV0?ref_=ast_author_dp

Books discussed in the podcast:

1. Homesteading: How to Find New Independence on the Land by Gene Logsdon: https://www.amazon.com/Homesteading-How-Find-Independence-Land/dp/0878570683
   Gene Logsdon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Logsdon
2. The Organic Gardener by Catherine Osgood Foster: https://www.amazon.com/organic-gardener-Catharine-Osgood-Foster/dp/0394472101

Influential people

1. Molly Brown - Bolinas School of Botanical Art - Molly brown: https://www.mollybrownartist.org
2. Craig Dremann -  Redwood Seed Company: https://www.ecoseeds.com/
3. Gurney Norman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney_Norman

Topher in conversation with Anne Hilton of California Peony Company.

https://www.californiapeonycompany.com/

Topher Delaney in conversation with Alexis Koefoed, Farmer, activist, and owner of Soul Food Farm.

https://www.soulfoodfarm.com/

Topher Delaney in conversation with Robin Parer, owner of Geraniaceae and grower of Erodiums, Geraniums, and Pelargoniums.

Ways to get in contact with Robin Parer: geraniac@pacbell.net

https://www.geraniaceae.com/

Photo by Saxon Holt.

Topher Delaney in conversation with Matt Kondolf, Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at the University of California Berkeley.

Garden The Knowledge. Topher Delaney in conversation with Martin Bournhonesque.

Topher Delaney in conversation with David Duskin, Public Artists, and co-founder of Petaluma River Park

http://www.davidduskin.com/

https://www.petalumariverpark.org/

Publicly accessible collaborative works:

Teaching Stones, Almaden Library and Community Center, San Jose, CA

Norman Lear Monument, Emerson College, Boston, MA

Castro Valley Creek Daylighting Project, Castro Valley Library, Castro Valley, CA

Thousand Ways, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA

Books that have inspired David:

The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell

Tao Te Ching, Lao-tzu, translation by Stephen Mitchell 

Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Finnegans Wake, James Joyce

Body Watching, Desmond Morris

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Paintings that have inspired David:

Annunciation, Cortona, Fra Angelico 

Annunciation, San Marco, Fra Angelico 

Otow Orchard
6232 Eureka Rd
Granite Bay, CA 95746
916-791-1656
www.otoworchard.com

In 1911,  Kitchitaro Kawanoand his wife, Momi, purchased 20 acres of land in the Rosedale Colony Tract of Loomis and named it Rosedale Farm. 

After Kitchitaro's death in 1939, his widow and youngest daughter, Helen, ran the farm. During World War II, Helen and her husband, Seiichi Otow, were interned at Tule Lake Relocation Center.

After the war, they returned to the farm to find that it was not in a condition to provide them an income. Seiichi opened a radio repair shop in Sacramento while reviving the orchard.

The Otow family, including Seiichi, Helen, June, Christine and Wesley cared for and harvested the orchard and packed all the fruit on the farm until the 1970s.

Today, Chris Otow Kuratomi and her husband, Tosh Kuratomi, respond to their customers' preferences with a much more diverse variety of fruits and vegetables. They continue to specialize in the ancient art of dried persimmons known as hoshigaki.

Surrounded by development, they strive to honor their family's commitment to the farm. The orchard takes on different personalities through the seasons and continues to provide local residents with high-quality fresh food.

They grow the following fruits + Vegetables:

Apples:
Gala
Gravenstein
Fuji
Honeycrisp
Pink Lady
Reinette Simirenko
Red Delicious
Yellow Delicious
Gala

Apricots
Blenheim        
Fantasme
Orange Red
Patterson
Robada
Royal
Royal Rosa

Asian Pears
Hosui
Kosui
Nijisseiki
Okusankichi
Olympic
Shinko
Shinseiki
Ya Li
Yoi

Blackberries

Cherries
Bing
Rainier
Royal Lee
Royal Lynn

Citrus
Blood Orange
Clementine Mandarin
Eureka Lemon
Satsuma Mandarin
Naval Orange
Satsuma Mandarin
Valencia Orange
Yellow Grapefruit

Figs          
Black Mission
Brown Turkey        
Panache

Garden Vegetables
Basil
Bitter Mellon
Chard
Chile
Cilantro
Japanese Cucumbers
Japanese Eggplants
Kale
Lavender
Mint
Okra
Peppers
Rosemary
Tomatillo
Tomatoes

Grapes
Kyoho
Red Perlette
Thompson Seedless

Jujube
GA866
Li
Sugar Cane

Kiwi

Mulberries

Nectarines
Ambre
Fantasia 
Flavortop
Heavenly White
Jade

Nuts
Almonds
Chestnuts
Pecan
Walnut

Olives
Manzanilla
Mission
Sevillano

Clingstone Peaches
Bowen
Phelps

White Peaches
Babcock
Indian Free
Nectar
Saturn (donut)
Silver Logan
Spring Rose
Sugar Lady

Yellow Freestone Peaches
49er
Delight
Fairtime
Fay Elberta
Flavorcrest
Frost
Gene Elberta
June pride
Junecrest
Late Alamar
Loring
Maycrest
Muir
O'henry
PF 11
PF lucky 13
Q-1-8
Red haven
Regina
Springcrest
Summerset
Suncrest

Pears  
Bartlett
Comice
D'anjou

Persimmon
Chocolate
Hachiya
Fuyu
Giombo
Giro
Hachiya
Hyakume
Imoto
Izu
Maru
Nagamaru
Niishimura Wase
Vodka

Plum
Black Amber
Casselman
El Dorado
Empress
Frontier
Kelsey
La Roda
Mariposa
Red Beaut
Red Roy
Santa Rosa
Satsuma
Ume

Plum
Black Amber
Casselman
El Dorado
Empress
Frontier
Kelsey
La Roda
Mariposa
Red Beaut
Red Roy
Santa Rosa
Satsuma
Ume

Pomegranates
Ambrosia
Eversweet
Wonderful

Quince

Squash
Black Futsu
Butternut Squash
Delicata
Kabocha
Red Kuri
Yellow Zucchini

Topher Delaney and Park Ranger Yenyen Chan discuss the significance of the Chinese in the early history of Yosemite and our National Park Service.

Resources discussed in the podcast:

• George Wright Forum Article: Interpreting the Contributions of Chinese Immigrants in Yosemite National Park’s History by Yenyen F. Chan - http://www.georgewright.org/343chan.pdf
• 2011 Yosemite Video: A Glimpse Into Yosemite's Chinese History - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kdyrfXGz90
• 2022 Yosemite Video: Uncovering Yosemite's Chinese History - https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm%3Fid%3DAF63C5CB-AB05-426C-9250-21B726BA4272
• Exhibit @ Chinese Laundry next to Wawona hotel -  https://yosemite.org/yosemites-chinese-history/
• The Today Show interview with Yenyen Chan about Yosemite's Chinese History - https://www.today.com/video/the-pivotal-role-chinese-immigrants-played-in-creating-yosemite-139607109518
• Yosemite's Chinese history exhibit - https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/historyculture/chinesehistory.htm

Chinese Built Roads @ Yosemite:

• Wawona Road - 23 miles long - Built in 4 months (December 1874- April 1875)
• Tioga Road (Formerly Great Sierra Wagon Road) - 56 miles long - Built in 4 months (1882 - 1883)
• Big Oak Flat Road
• Coulterville Road
• The original Washburn trail to the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias in Yosemite

Pilgrimage to Sing Mountain:

For more information on the Yosemite Sing Peak Pilgrimage, visit the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California website: www.chssc.org
The CHSSC website has a specific bookmark for this Yosemite Pilgrimage that is also available directly at this link: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9b463916aa294dcda3cea9d3b4e12926

To request a Ranger Program with Yenyen Chan, contact Public Information Officer - https://www.nps.gov/yose/contacts.htm

If you have any stories, letters, or other artifacts from family members who may have worked in Yosemite or the surrounding areas during the 1840's onwards, please email: yosemitesingpeak@gmail.com

Photo Credit: Christine White Loberg

Topher Delaney in conversation with Joanna Letz, founder and owner-of Bluma Flower Farm, a rooftop farm in Berkeley, CA.   

Resources discussed in the podcast:

1. Santa Cruz Farm Program -  https://agroecology.ucsc.edu/
2. Resource for landscape fabric.  Nolt's Produce Supplies - https://noltsproducesupplies.net/
3. Resource for Collinear Hoes - https://www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/weed-control/hoes-cultivators/collinear/
4. Resource for Cold Storage Systems: Cool Bot - https://www.storeitcold.com
5. Organic Certification: CCOF - https://www.ccof.org/
6. Ecological Farming Conference: EcoFarm Ecological Farming Association - https://eco-farm.org/conference
7. Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers - https://www.ascfg.org/

Topher Delaney in conversation with Jean Wheeler, owner of Main Street Trees in Napa, CA. 

Main Street Trees: www.mainstreettrees.com

Jean Wheeler's Favorite Trees:

Figs
Col de Dame noir
Grosse Monstreuse
Eve's Black Cherry
Excel
White Genoa
Kadota

Pomegranates
Wonderful
Ariana
Desertnyi
Early Wonderful
Vkusnyi

Apples
Ashmead's Kernel
Golden Delicious
Goldrush

Citrus
Bearss Lime
Meyer Lemon
Owari Satsuma Mandarin

"Be fruitful and mulch apply" ~Jean Wheeler

Topher Delaney in conversation with Darrel Schramm, rosarian and author of Rainbow (https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-California-Darrell-g-h-Schramm/dp/1547175745)

Rose Resources:

1. helpmefind/roses: https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/plants.php
2. The Friends of the Vintage Roses: https://thefriendsofvintageroses.org/
3. The Heritage Roses Group: http://www.theheritagerosesgroup.org/

Sources for Heirloom Roses

1. Burlington Rose Nursery - http://burlingtonroses.com/
2. Greenmantle Nursery: https://www.greenmantlenursery.com/
3. Rogue Valley Roses: https://roguevalleyroses.com/
4. Antique Rose Emporium: https://antiqueroseemporium.com/
5. Heirloom Roses: https://www.heirloomroses.com/
6. Russian River Rose Company: http://www.russian-river-rose.com/
7. Rose Petals Nursery: https://www.rosepetalsnursery.com/

List of Thornless Roses: 

1. Name / Category / Color
2. Adam Messerich / Bourbon / Red
3. Aimee Vibert / Noisette / White
4. Alfred de Dalmas / Moss / Light Pink
5. Archduke Charles / China / Pink
6. Baron J.B. Gonella / Bourbon/ Pink
7. Blanche Mallerin / Hybrid Tea / White
8. Bleu Magenta / Hybrid Multiflora (climber/rambler) / Mauve
9. Boule de Neige / Bourbon / White
10. Cardinal de Richelieu / Gallica / Mauve
11. Catherine Guillot / Bourbon / Deep Pink
12. Charles Lawson / Bourbon / Deep Pink
13. Chloris / Alba / Light Pink
14. Clotilde Soupert / Polyantha / White
15. Cornelia / Hybrid Musk / Pink and Yellow 
16. Crepuscule / Noisette / Apricot 
17. Daybreak / Hybrid Musk / Light Yellow 
18. Dupuy Jamain / Hybrid Perpetual / Red
19. Eugenie Guinoisseau / Moss / Red
20. Felicia / Hybrid Musk / Pink
21. Frau Karl Druschki / Hybrid Perpetual / White
22. General Kleber / Moss / Pink
23. Gilbert Nabbonand / Tea / Orange Pink
24. Goldfinch / Hybrid Multiflora (climber/rambler) / Light Yellow 
25. Honorine de Brabant / Bourbon / Pink Striped 
26. Kathleen / Hybrid Musk / Light Pink
27. Kathleen Harrop / Bourbon / Light Pink
28. La Marne / Polyantha / Pink
29. La Reine / Hybrid Perpetual / Pink Lavender
30. Lady Banks / Species Rose / White
31. Lady Banks / Species Rose / Yellow 
32. Lady Hillingdon / Tea / Yellow
33. Louis XIV / China / Dark Red
34. Mlle Cecile Brunner / Polyantha / Light Pink
35. Mme Berard / Tea Clone / Orange Blend
36. Mme Legras de St. Germain / Alba / White
37. Mme Pierre Oger / Bourbon / White with Pink Edges
38. Mme Plantier / Hybrid Alba / White
39. Mrs. Dudley Cross / Tea / Yellow
40. Mrs. John Laing / Hybrid Perpetual / Dark Pink
41. Paul Neyron / Hybrid Perpetual / Medium Pink 
42. Penelope / Hybrid Musk / Light Pink
43. Perle d’Or / Polyantha / Apricot
44. Queen of Denmark / Alba / Pink
45. Reome des Violettes / Hybrid Perpetual / Mauve
46. Souvenir du Dr. Jamain / Hybrid Perpetual / Dark Red
47. Tausendschon / Hybrit Multiflora (climber/rambler) / Pink
48. Veilchenblau / Hybrid Multiflora (climber/rambler) / Mauve 
49. Yolande d’Aragon / Portland / Mauve or Dark Pink 
50. Yvonne Rabier / Polyantha / White
51. Zephirine Drouhin / Bourbon / Pink

Topher Delaney in conversation with arborist, Ray Moritz about wildfires and fire prevention

Urban Forestry Associates: https://www.urbanforestryassociates.com/

Topher Delaney in conversation with Dr. Joe McBride

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/06/climate/california-zombie-forests.html

Topher Delaney in conversation with Dr. Nancy Piotrowski, President of the Vallejo Garden Club. 

Please email questions to topher@virgiegilesfoundation.org

Links:

Vallejo Garden Club - https://www.facebook.com/VallejoGardenClub

National Garden Club - https://gardenclub.org/

California Garden Club - California Garden Club

California Native Plants Society - https://www.cnps.org/

Audubon Society - https://www.audubon.org/

Napa Solano Audubon Society - http://www.napasolanoaudubon.com/

Annie's Annuals - https://www.anniesannuals.com/

Mid City Nursery - https://www.midcitynursery.com/

Morning Sun Herb Farm https://morningsunherbfarm.com/

Culver Lake Nursery and Market - New Jersey - https://culverlakenursery.weebly.com/