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Welcome to the Huntington Ranch Blog, the online home of The Huntington's new urban agriculture project. In the first decades of the 20th century, Henry Huntington's San Marino property was a working ranch, pushing agricultural boundaries with the first commercial avocado grove

In the spring/summer 2009 issue of Huntington Frontiers magazine, I wrote about a project that was underway to return The Huntington to its agricultural roots. Next week marks the official unveiling of the Huntington Ranch.

The gardens at The Huntington are among the most photogenic in the world. Just ask any visitor strolling down a path with a camera. Many of those visitors are sharing their photos on Flickr, inspiring a world-wide community of photographers

Historians can be like kids in a candy store when it comes to Halloween. Nicholas Rogers, the Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington in 2009–10, had fun with a public lecture in Friends' Hall last October.

Halloween is upon us, and if your spirit is craving something "super-natural" this week, forget about chocolate bars and candy corn and gather up a basket of herbs instead. In just about any backyard garden or patio potager, you'll find mysterious plants

You might have caught Larry Harnisch's series of posts on his latimes.com blog The Daily Mirror about the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. Larry did quite a bit of his research here at The Huntington

This Saturday USC Libraries play host to the fifth annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar. The Huntington was the site of the first bazaar in 2006, when 30 historical collections and archives exhibited photos, pamphlets, and other primary documents from their collections.

This month at the Huntington Library Press, we have been time travelers. We began in the distant past, doing the last proofreading on a special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly devoted to what people read, mostly in England