NOMAD DREAMING

Here’s looking at you: one of my favourite neighbourhood entrances. Larrea Tridentata (aka creosote bush - I wish I could persuade some...

Dawn walks around the neighborhood have spectacular lighting these days, thanks to the tail end of monsoon season trailing clouds across...

Pancakes are the easiest way to make a quick, nourishing meal in my house. Since some version of pancakes are often the starting point of...

A subdued sunrise on the Rio Grande before setting up for farmers market. Turtleback Mountain watches the light come up on another Saturday.

Berbere Spice mix is added today to this Saturday’s market offering. A layered, little bit hot, little bit sweet, spice mix, popular in...

The recent full harvest moon found me camping at Faywood, a hotsprings desert oasis. The experience was a land of enchantment, magical...

The pollinators had a party in the garden this autumn equinox. More butterflies than I can identify. Fuzzy, buzzy bees everywhere,...

Twenty years ago I was on a train heading from Alicedale, on the East Cape coast of the old country, to Johannesburg, for a final...

This week, besides celebrating my new leopard labels, Ash Salt becomes a farmers market offering. We will see how it does on Saturday....

A walkthrough of the garden yielded a Madhu Ras melon, a purple sweet pepper and a Jing orange okra pod. In spite of the squash bugs, and...

Fridays are prepare-for-market days. The pots of Allium Tuberosum (Garlic Chive/Chinese Chive) seedlings are ready to be offered for...

Today’s haul from the garden: two beautiful big Black Beauty eggplant, San Marzano tomatoes, a young Jing orange okra, sweet green bell...

West East Liminal and without grace. Far away from home, sleeping on fists like rocks. Emaweni webaba Silale maweni Webaba silale maweni...

On the kitchen table today: the first of the dry Sonoran White Tepary Bean pods, grown for the Native Seed Search seed bank. I have been...

The first of the Madhu Ras Rajasthani melons fell off the vine into my hands today, just like the online guides to knowing when your...

Today’s harvest was beans: a fine haul of green beans and some young pods of Lablab purpureus (dolichos/hyacinth bean). While I am...

Wandering on the western edge of town, under the canopy of a soft, monsoon season, sunset. Somewhere there is rain falling, but not here....

Allium Tuberosum (garlic chives, Chinese chives) are flowering. Bees are happy. While I use these chives extensively in cookery for a...

Couldn’t resist playing with the beauties air drying on a woven reed plate: cayenne peppers and lablab purpureus (hyacinth bean/dolichos...

There’s a smell of desert rain on the air and a monsoon season magnificence of sunset light play. Not captured were the brilliant flashes...