Bay Curious
Hosted by Olivia Allen-Price and Christopher Beale and Katrina Schwartz and Anna Casalme and Ethan Toven-Lindsey and Jen Chien and Katie Sprenger and Maha Sanad · KQED
4.8from 1,285 ratings
- 525
- Episodes
- 150
- Transcribed
- 1,285
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About Bay Curious
Bay Curious is a show about your questions – and the adventures you find when you go looking for the answers. Join host Olivia Allen-Price to explore all aspects of the San Francisco Bay Area – from the debate over "Frisco", to the dinosaurs that once roamed California, to the causes of homelessness. Whether you lived here your whole life, or just arrived, Bay Curious will deepen your understanding of this place you call home.
- Publisher
- KQED
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Nov 2016
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
150 of 525 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Forgotten Chinese Flower Growers in the S.F. Bay Area
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Why So Many Golf Courses in Public Parks?
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The Forgotten Chinese Flower Growers in the S.F. Bay Area
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] In black pencil, dark black pencil, are the names of the farmers. And they're all Chinese and Japanese. For a solid stretch of the 20th century, the Bay Area was home to a burgeoning flower industry, shaped in part by Japanese, Italian, and Chinese farmers. In 1948, about 200 acres of chrysanthemums were grown in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Imagine, that's like 150 football fields. Some of these flowers were grown on Stanford lands between the 1890s and the 1960s, in plots leased to Asian American farmers. If you could imagine as you go down towards El Camino Real at the shopping center or where our graduate students live today, you would have seen just fields of flowers. […]
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- 4.8 / 5
- 1,079 ratings
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- 4.9 / 5
- 206 ratings
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Who hosts Bay Curious?
Olivia Allen-Price and Christopher Beale and Katrina Schwartz and Anna Casalme and Ethan Toven-Lindsey and Jen Chien and Katie Sprenger and Maha Sanad host the show. Published by KQED.
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