Sunday, October 19, 2014

Let's make a date

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It's that time of year again! 

 Here is a very interesting article about just how much work and love goes into raising date palms at Kibbutz Ketura.

See the palm in effervescence in my earlier post.
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  1. VPOctober 19, 2014 at 1:08 PM

    We have many palm trees around here, and they keep planting more...

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  2. AmandaOctober 19, 2014 at 5:35 PM

    Wonderful article! Our dates in SoCal are grown around the Palm Springs area and I can buy them fresh at my farmers market. Unlike Lisa Solomon, I cannot eat only one per day.

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  3. William KendallOctober 19, 2014 at 9:05 PM

    Ah, so that's what a date tree looks like. Very colourful!

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  4. TaniaOctober 19, 2014 at 9:49 PM

    I do not like dates, but palm trees are beautiful! We do not have any here..

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  5. Come Away With MeOctober 19, 2014 at 11:25 PM

    Thank you Dina, that article was so interesting. And I noted this sentence: "Astonishingly, the entire plantation has been produced from 12 ‘mother’ trees, originally imported from California, six of which remain to this day." I wonder if the Medjool dates I am eating right now (your post inspired me) are from relatives of those Israeli date groves? Perhaps! The article really gives some good information, none of which I knew before reading it.

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  6. crystalOctober 20, 2014 at 2:00 AM

    It's interesting to see a close-up of dates on the tree. We have date palms here in central California too but I've never looked closely when the dates were growing.. Yum :)

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  7. SuzanneOctober 20, 2014 at 4:17 AM

    Really nice photo Dina, love all of the colors. Sort of fall-ish.

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  8. JamesOctober 20, 2014 at 5:39 AM

    This reminds me of the date palms that were near my house when I was a boy. We also had lots of olive trees nearby.

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  9. Petrea BurchardOctober 20, 2014 at 7:33 AM

    Luscious and beautiful. I'll bet Nadege knows about date shakes.

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  10. KarlOctober 20, 2014 at 5:11 PM

    Beautiful photo, Dina!
    (And I love dates...)

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  11. BirdmanOctober 20, 2014 at 7:45 PM

    Will you be sharing 'dating' etiquette soon? Couldn't resist. hehehehehehehe

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  12. GunnOctober 23, 2014 at 11:29 AM

    Nice image.
    I have several friends who worked in Kibbutz.... (don't know how I spell more than one.) Anyway, they still talk about it as a very nice time.

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