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THE HARVEST by MP Cunningham

MattyB

By MattyB
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I had a very special week that I wanted to share with you guys. I was lucky enough to get to work with a filmmaker that I admire very much. I'll share more about this week's project at another time, but I thought you guys and gals would appreciate this beautiful mini-doc that he made about the almond harvest. Check out some of his other award winning short films and comedy sketches. He is really a creative genius. I am blessed. Enjoy.

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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Were those ammonds or almonds?....only the growers know for sure!

John Case

Brentwood CA

Owner and curator of Hana Keu Garden

USDA Zone 9b more or less, Sunset Zone 14 in winter 9 in summer

"Its always exciting the first time you save the world. Its a real thrill!"

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Thank for the vid Matty, it was very interesting. I saw for the first time a mobile factory. I love almond trees, they do not need water and love calcareous soil. The wood when dried is almost as hard as glas! My wife's grandfather earned a comfortable living by cultivating almond trees on an otherwise semi- arid, stony and infertile mountain slope in Crete. He traded the annual crop in southern France, where BTW there is still an 'Almond Day' every year.

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Aww that was very beautiful. For me the film bought back my childhood memories of visiting the almond orchards where my Dad would lease out his bee hives. There are not many almond orchards left now the growers have switched over to grapes but the anual end of winter almond blossom festival still happens.

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This is the last almond orchard on the edge of my town about 200m away from my house. I took the photo a few years ago at the end of July early August. I think the Cockatoos get most of the crop as no one seems to tend the trees and the paddock is home to a couple of alpacas.

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Very nicely done, the merging of the music with the visuals in particular.

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Were those ammonds or almonds?....only the growers know for sure!

In the "old days" almonds were harvested by spreading tarps out under the trees and then hitting the trunks with large hammers to knock the nuts out of the tree.

The story goes that before the harvest they are almonds, but during the harvest they get the "L" knocked out of them...

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Hahaha

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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Dr George, and Bepah,

in the Sacramento Valley the nuts and trees are ammonds, until the nuts are processed. What's in the can are almonds. Apparently, this is not so in the San Joaquin Valley, where they are all almonds. :mrlooney: (Trust me, born and raised in Colusa County)

The firewood is the best, as it is hard and burns cleanly. Also, almond trees have an economic lifespan and are removed and the field re-planted.

The old trees thus are a firewood source that does not have a negative impact on the larger ecology,... such as the cutting of wild oak trees for firewood.

San Francisco, California

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