Author: Cindy Lambert

In April 2024 the David and Judy Breitstein historic collection catalog was highlighted on the Wine History Project of San Luis Obispo County’s website. The catalog contains nearly 200 significant bottles of wine from California’s wine history: a collection which the Breitsteins’ assembled over more than 50 years of collecting.

A coordinated effort of national soil mapping began in the United States in 1899. It began with a nationwide partnership of federal, regional, state, and local agencies, private entities, and universities. This idea of a soil survey in our country, some say originated with Milton Whitney, a professor of geology and soil physics at the Maryland Agricultural College and a physicist at the Experiment Station. He published a paper in 1892, “Some Physical Properties of Soils in Relation to Moisture and Crop Distribution” in which he examined a number of soils.

The Pacific Rural Press was first established in San Francisco, California in 1871. It was formed to educate and serve the needs of California’s agricultural community, primarily addressing fruit and vegetable growers. It became a major agricultural journal that was published between the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth century.