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Updated October 7, 2021

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Luther Burbank (and his hat) among the cacti.

The Thorny Tale of America's Favorite Botanist and His Spineless Cacti

Luther Burbank dreamed of deserts filled with cow food.
by Anne Ewbank
Luther Burbank, at one of his experimental farms in 1901.

America's Greatest Horticulturist Left Behind a Plum Mystery

Frida Kahlo painted him. Thomas Edison admired him. Now Rachel Spaeth is trying to decode him.
by Anne Ewbank
Ash can be silky like fine sand, or chunkier, and dark as charcoal.

Making Pottery From the Ashes of the Sonoma Wildfires

A ceramicist is offering people who lost their homes a way to remember—and look to the future.
by Jessica Leigh Hester

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