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Published September 23In the Fields, September 24, 2026
Peter Martinelli’s ripening apple orchard in Bolinas is an archive of diversity, with heirloom varieties that ripen at different times and with different flavors. “But everything is off cycle this year,” he said. Gravensteins, the first to ripen, ran late. Spicy Spitzenburgs,…
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Published September 02A close eye on bears
After a bear climbed through the bathroom window and trashed his family’s cabin in the Sierra, Eric Persha had every reason to resent the opportunistic omnivores, who will eat just about anything they can get their paws on. But when he and his family discovered a black bear on…