Clearly, there’s no shortage of flowers in Southern California. If you do an online search for “lavender farms Southern California,” you’ll get a good-sized list for farms north of Los Angeles, such as Frog Creek Farm in Ojai, Foxen Canyon Farms in Solvang, Lavender Fields Forever in Buellton and Clairmont Farms in Los Olivos. August: California buckwheat Come midsummer, it’s …
Kendall Obra, 31, a climber living in Pasadena, has been coping with multiple disabilities for almost two decades. “Instead of adaptive climbers feeling like they’re doing a whole bunch of pull-ups, the mechanical system helps it feel like an assisted pull-up,” Seelenfreund says. “If you race, there’s one way to run, but if you climb, there are a whole bunch …
Finally, a sliver of hope for Western monarch butterflies. That’s pretty abysmal given that a few years ago we saw 20,000.” Take the popular Monarch Grove in Pismo State Beach. Although official counts have not begun yet, Pelton said the known monarch grove in Pacific Grove, Calif., near Monterey saw 1,300 butterflies last weekend — reason enough to be cautiously …
