Our reporting for Date Party didn’t fit in a zine, so it became a long-form feature for Sourced Journeys, a public research project on our relationships with food and drink. The piece follows the Coachella Valley’s growers, who raise nearly 90 percent of the nation’s dates, as land prices, development, consolidation and water pressures close in.
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Read the story →The Bitter Future of California’s Date Industry
Our long-form report on the Coachella Valley’s date growers.
from the article
In the Coachella Valley, a date palm grows on its own time. It takes seven years to sprout a date palm shoot, seven more before it produces shoots of its own, and another seven before it bears its best fruit.
— “The Bitter Future of California’s Date Industry,” Sourced Journeys
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