Medjool Dates Fruit & Medjool Date Palm Trees » date palms http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog Medjool Dates, Dates Dried Fruit, Dried Fruit, Fresh Fruit, Nutrition Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:19:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Medjool Date Farming The Perils http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2011/09/23/medjool-date-farming-the-perils/ http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2011/09/23/medjool-date-farming-the-perils/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:58:00 +0000 Pina http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/?p=334 You would think that nothing could be better than growing dates, since you don’t need anything out of the ordinary.  It seems like it should be a very safe activity, especially when you do not use pesticides to grow your medjool dates, but things are not always what they seem.  There are all kinds of hidden perils.  The fruit that is not good enough for consumption is disposed into the ground and fruit left on the date palm, likewise makes its way to the ground.  The fruit on the ground in turn brings field mice which in turn bring in field mice predators.  The primary predator for the field mouse is probably the local rattle snake and to a lesser extent owls and hawks.  The peril being the rattle snake.  If you are not careful you can step on a rattlesnake and get bitten by a rattlesnake when working on the date palms or harvesting.  Not too many people get bitten by rattle snakes, but it is definitely rattlesnake country.  When working on the tractor to clear the weeds you run the risk of getting caught on the date palm fronds.  On occasion you may fall grab from a date frond and tear your hand.  The fronds have thorns and dangerous so you get cuts and scratches, year round when you work on the date palms.  Medjool dates in particular are labor intensive and therefore require constant vigilance when working on the date palms.

GHTime Code(s): nc  ]]> http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2011/09/23/medjool-date-farming-the-perils/feed/ 0 Back To School http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2011/09/01/back-to-school/ http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2011/09/01/back-to-school/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:23:13 +0000 Pina http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/?p=322 School starts again today for the kids.  In the desert it is still summer and if you went to one of these old local schools you remember how miserable it was.  It was hot and there as no AC or very poor AC systems.  The response from the teachers was that others had it worse before us.  A lot of new nice schools were built during the building boom so fortunately a lot of kids will be going to nice schools.  I remember going to school past the date palm groves and I remember the date palms on campus and most of all I remember the damn mosquitoes.  There were a lot of mosquitoes and in fact there is a special government entity that is responsible for mosquito control.  Judging by the looks of the date palms, the schools were very old, the date palms were still producing dates, but they were very tall.  The date palms were probably around 50-70 years old.  The school was probably the same age.  I resented the date palms, because the date palm is not as broad as a nice shade trees, so there was not a whole lot of shade.

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