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Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Go on a fruit tasting tour in the experimental orchard of internationally renowned Zaiger Genetics to see how they've revolutionzied the world of stone fruit breeding. Next, visit a nursery in Hickman, California that has an exclusive license to produce and distribute Zaiger-bred fruit trees. Then learn how you can prepare, plant and irrigate fruit trees in your own backyard.

“Ken Kramer’s About San Diego” is returning to the air Thursday nights at 8 p.m., beginning January 25 with five new episodes on KPBS.

It's only been a few days since a gunman in Las Vegas killed 58 people attending the Harvest 91 Country Music Festival, and injured more than 500. Many of us, all across America, are asking why and how such a tragedy could happen. We asked members of the KPBS Public Insight Network how the mass shooting is affecting them personally.

Films address themes of migration, resilience, and reconciliation

San Diego book lovers have a reason to celebrate this weekend. The San Diego Festival of Books is a daylong event featuring dozens of local authors talking about their craft.

KPBS announced the 2017 One Book, One San Diego book selection "The Sandcastle Girls" by Chris Bohjalian, the critically acclaimed novelist whose books frequently make The New York Times best-seller list. Bohjalian will be in San Diego for two public events on September 12 and 13.

GiveDirectly, the brainchild of a UC San Diego associate professor, has become one of the fastest growing international charities. It allows people to send money directly to people living in extreme poverty.

A citizen science project in development for four years is hitting San Diego's beaches this week, as researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography reach out to surfers to gather data about the region's coastal waters.

Local readers submitted over 500 nominations for the One Book, One San Diego 2017 title. Nine finalists made the cut.

Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11 a.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. The words "urban" and "forest" may sound like contradictory terms but our urban environments are, or could be, vast forests of street trees, park trees, and backyard trees. Meet the founder of Tree People, learn about San Diego's urban forestry efforts, and how to select trees for our own gardens.