Date Party traces the story of the Coachella Valley through its most symbolic fruit. We set out to understand how a desert crop became an emblem of California’s agricultural identity, the dishes that celebrate its versatility and what’s at stake for local farmers as surrounding land gives way to development.
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from the zine
From a distance, the Coachella Valley can feel like absence, the earth dry with scorched brush and silence. But peer closer, and you’ll find something else: life, quietly and stubbornly insisting itself into being.
— Date Party, the zine
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