NOMAD DREAMING

Since I have no heritage which connects me significantly to the Feast of the Great Turkey Massacre, I spent the day harvesting peanuts. I...

With temperatures dropping into mid thirties at night now, I called time on the last of the Fordhook 242 Lima beans (Phaseolus lunatus)...

This week past (night of Nov 18/19) saw the first frost and provoked a final harvest of eggplant and hot chilli - both the heirloom...

Last week I took a little road trip to Tucson, Arizona, to deliver the southwest native Sonoma White tepary beans (Phaseolus acutifolius)...

At last! The French Grey aka Griselle shallots (Allium oschaninii) for planting arrived. They look a little scuzzy and a few are just...

Finally found the Mexican screen door I’ve been dreaming of for five years. I was beginning to think I was going to have to drive into...

The rest of the garlic saved for sowing (a pound) was planted today in beautiful, slightly unseasonably warm sunshine. With afternoon...

While I am not fond, at all, of the artifice of the practice of Daylight Savings Time, which involves changing the clock seasonally,...

My order of a lb of planting setts of Allium cepa var. aggregatum - Dutch shallots aka multiplier onions or potato onions - arrived in...

Deepavali greetings from the northern Chihuahuan desert where every dawn is a festival of colour and light. May your life be as full of...

Continuing my tradition (all of one year old) of planting garlic on Halloween, the first of the new season’s sowing went into the earth...

The birds have welcomed the return of a clean and refilled bird bath to the back garden with great splashy sessions and a commotion of...

Took a drive up Emory Pass in the Black Range mountains (aka Sierra Diablo/Devil’s Mountains) to get some perspective, lift the elephant...

Last week I prepared and delivered my first big order of 6th Avenue Shala spices. Twelve jars of chai masala for gifts for participants...

Because I am surrounded by this free, desert adapted, nutrient rich vegetable, today’s brunch made use of nopal (opuntia cactus) pads. I...

Well hello! Look who is hanging out on the front screen door. Trickster mantis, herself. Looking in. Looking all around. Uh huh. Uh huh....

Dancing with Venus, in the western sky, just after sunset. Cradling the shadow of her full potential, in the crescent of her arms. A...

Good morning sky. Good morning clouds. Good morning sun. Good morning mountain. Good morning seeds. Good morning neighbours. Good morning...

Dawn skies are filled with the honking vees of migratory cranes and geese these days. Sign of season’s change. Some might be moving...

Today I received a third Covid-19 vaccination. Hard to believe it’s been more than six months since my second shot. Yes, I know, much of...