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Day: March 27, 2017

The hunt begins

Posted on 2017-03-272023-01-06 by Allison J. Gong

RAIN + SUN = WILDFLOWERS That’s one of the truisms of life in a Mediterranean climate such as ours. The official water year as measured by NOAA runs from 1 October through 30 September, and along the central/northern California coast most of the rain falls from December through March. The rest of the year, April through the summer and most…

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