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Mushroom Madness 
Fungi can cure or kill, nourish life, and also decompose it back into soil. Fossil evidence for fungi is limited, but the ability to analyze molecular data has led to revelations about the evolution of this extraordinary family of...
Fool’s Gold: The Myth of Tiburcio Vasquez 
“And still of a winter’s night, they say,  when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon  tossed upon cloudy seas,    When the road is a ribbon of moonlight  over the purple moor,    A...
Billions in Flight: Migratory Birds 
Autumn doesn’t officially begin until the equinox on September 22, but all across North America birds are already on the wing—billions of them. Migration times and destinations vary based on the species and variables like weather and food sources—some...
One-Room Schoolhouse 
Back to school. A hundred years ago in Topanga, it would have been on foot—and often barefoot—to the little, red, one-room schoolhouse by the creek in the bend of the dirt road.  Public education in California was still relatively...
Books & Such

James and Huckleberry 

Historians use documents and artifacts to determine human motivations and intentions. For instance, when Abigail Adams reminded her husband John that he should “remember the ladies” while creating a new nation dedicated to equality, understanding the meaning of her...
GoodLiving

Walnut Milk 

Have you ever tried nut milk? Creamy, delicious, and unadulterated nut milk? The homemade kind, not the kind from the grocery store that has all the extra additives to keep it shelf stable. As people are becoming more aware...
ArtBeat

A Book Launch with Jane Marla Robbins 

Book launch, a reading and signing for MYASTHENIA GRAVIS: THE MUSICAL! My Medical, Hysterical, Poetical, Comical, 25-Month Memoir by Topanga Author/Performer Jane Marla Robbins.   “Glorious. Funny. Completely spectacular,” Topanga’s Celeste Fremon, Witness LA.  “Wild, intense, wacky, irreverent,” Jim Burroughs, Academy...
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RCD on YouTube 

The RCD’s Community Resilience team, with a grant from CalFire, created a series of videos to help our communities become more wildfire resilient. The videos cover wildfire preparedness, fire ecology and how-tos for home hardening & defensible space. RCD...