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Using Ramps on a Ranch in 2024

October 30, 2021February 17, 2021 by David D. Conner

Living on a ranch is arguably more difficult than living in a city. First of all, in the city, you have everything close by and you don’t have that privilege when you live on a ranch. Also, there is much more physical work on a ranch. Accepting these challenges in front of you as daily … Read more

A Beauty of a Ranch

May 15, 2019June 1, 2011 by Growing Magazine

Pears, peaches and much more A dirt road leads up a hill to Blum Ranch in Acton, Calif., where the Blum family has been growing peaches, pears and lilacs, and keeping bees for more than a hundred years. In 1891, George Blum, a Swiss stonecutter working in Los Angeles, was looking for a better life … Read more