ASU staff from ASU Corporate Engagement and Strategic Partnerships made pollen bombs to lob at the female flowers to pollinate the Medjool date palms on Palm Walk today.

Last Friday students from WP Carey Business School made pollen bombs and pollinate the first flowers of the new harvest season on the Medjool date palms on Palm Walk.

State Farm employees recently took time off work and volunteered to work fertilizer into the soil around all date palms and fruit trees.

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Meet our new Date Palm Harvest trainee, Joshua Baillie. Joshua bagged his first 30lb bunch of Honey dates today and is also finishing up his degree in ABS Desert Food Production.

Josh's first day working 25 feet up in a palm on the aerial lift.

Josh finished bagging the Honey date palm. 14 bagged bunches evenly encircles the crown. Each bunch needs to be thinned to prevent its weight from bending or pinching the supporting stalk in half thereby killing the date bunch. The center tip of each bunch was cut off to thin it

Every summer ASU Global Launch welcomes Nanzan University students from Japan. Instructor Erin McCloskey always includes an early morning Arboretum food forest tour starting at the shady Herb Garden. They loved the guava and white sapotes in the Secret Garden. #ASU

Joshua tied mesh bags on 7 bunches of Khalasa, 11 on Rhars and 14 on Maktoom. Nice work this week!

First to flush from the green kimri stage to the khalal stage are the burgundy colored Abada fruit and the yellow colored Khir dates at the Polytechnic date grove.

Maktoom date palms were imported into Arizona from the Bagdad area of Iraq. It is a soft flavorful date. Our Maktoom at ASU Polytechnic is now ripening into the khalal stage.

August 16th and Josh fresh harvested a hand full of early ripening Khir and ASU dates.

How to make walnut date cheesecake bites in the field - Bring a tub of whipped cream cheese, knife and a tub of walnuts with you. Open up the net bag on the date bunch and remove only the ripe ones. Re-tie the net bag to let the rest ripen. Cut the date on one side longitudinal,

flick out the seed with your knife, then add a dob of cream cheese inside the date, smash a walnut down into the cream cheese. Enjoy your walnut cheese cake bite.

We are brushing up the ASU Polytechnic Date Grove to get ready for harvest volunteers tomorrow!

ASU Arboretum Campus Harvest dropped off 150 half pound bags of Palm Walk Medjool dates at Pitchfork Pantry today. This student club strives to ensure that every student has access to nutritious food. pitchforkpantry.org

We still have ASU campus-grown dates for sale for the holidays! Pick up a pound of Palm Walk Medjool dates at the University Services Building and hard to find soft varieties like Barhee and Khir dates at Sphinx Date Co. Palm & Pantry.

Love some Palm Walk Medjool Date Snickers bars? Go see Oliver and Amber at the front desk at the University Services building at 1551 S. Rural Rd. Tempe to buy your dates. Still a bargain at $6 per pound. olivesnthyme.com/date-snickers/…