NOMAD DREAMING

Harvesting in the garden this morning, a bird eaten fruit under the tree alerted me to the ripening of the first Santa Rosa plums on the ...

I bought a rain gauge this week. Now I know that, if this device is accurate, the sunset storm last night gave 0.2 inches to the Garden...

A sunset thunderstorm, so typical of monsoon season, means I have a bucket in the kitchen to catch the drips from the leaking roof, and I...

People often ask me at the farmers market whether I use the products I sell, specifically the spice and condiment mixes. The answer is...

The first “Polar Bear “ zinnia is flowering. It seems to be the only survivor of a whole packet of seeds sown at the spring festival of...

She knows there’s no success like failure And failure is no success at all* The time has come. We need to talk about the shallots. Last...

After a stormy night with a lot of lightning and thunder, and a little bit (maybe 0.2 inches) of rain, the monsoon season morning skies...

Not quite a peck, but the first pickled peppers of the season have been set to mature. The little jar is Jalapeños, the taller is...

I had my 4th Covid vaccination at the tail end of June at a vaccination event in the coffee shop at the local rural community hospital. I...

The arrival of monsoon rainstorms dampened the out of control zeal of the Black Fire which has been burning in the Gila National Forest...

Though I planted a smaller food garden this year, as I transition the garden to require less water, the Solanaceae area is starting to...

More Jackson Pollock than botanical illustration, my first attempt at eco printing hangs In the kitchen window. For a while now, I’ve ...

The annual monsoons arrived a week or two early, on solstice, this year, with low, full-bellied licorice clouds. Humidity jumped from 10%...

The hacienda accidentally got a new front door this week. There was nothing wrong (in my opinion) with the old front door. Yes, it was...

This week I’ve added a Japanese element to the spice and salt mix offerings at the Saturday farmers market stall: vegan furikake...

”A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that,...

The first pods of pinto beans were found to be crackly and ready for harvest this week. Opening the pods reveals jewels: beautiful...

At the plant nursery which I visited this week, I found a sleeping cat amongst the African Violets display. I restrained myself from...

A somewhat wounded pollinator visited this morning, spotted first on a sunflower out back. Not much later, they did a fly-by of the...

When I pictured a garden in the Chihuahuan desert, sun ripened, sanyasi saffron orange apricots weighing down the limbs of the tree was...