NOMAD DREAMING

Looking at life from both sides. It’s not google, but my street view this summer solstice is happy and colour full. Just what I wanted...

The sneaky gem squash Cucurbita pepo var. pepo patch has been busy hosting pollinator parties it seems. The young vines, just on 28 days...

Summer Solstice greetings from #6thavenueshala where birds gather in noisy conference, marigolds for garlands are plentiful and...

4 bottles of a bright and tangy tasting plum and green tomato chutney. Two and a half pounds of Santa Rosa plums from the Farmers Market...

Two little hibiscus sabdariffa (the tea hibiscus) and two moringa are currently holding on in spite of the excessive heat. I sowed way...

Solstice dawn harvest: first Jing okra, marigolds for garlands, the first Black Beauty eggplant, green tomatoes for plum chutney Sand a...

Jing okra have pods which are almost ready for harvest. A few more of these hot days and there will be enough for oven baked okra crisps....

Today’s harvest a rainbow cornucopia of sweet peppers. Apricots: there were 3 but I ate one under the tree before I remembered the garden...

Hollyhocks are galloping to done with this heat. The seeds are so neatly packed in tidy packages like little, lovingly crafted,...

Peanut flowers! Seems the Tennessee Red Valencias are quicker off the mark than the Schronce’s Deep Black. Seeds were sown 12 May with...

Indian Rainbow corn is tasseling beautifully in multicolored fountains. Germination was a bit patchy in this season’s milagro corn and...

Some in the outback food forest are enjoying the heat (and maybe yesterday’s deep watering) Jing orange okra plants are covered in buds....

Morning prayers Diamonds on the water, dipping my paddle into Lyman Lake, AZ last month. I have now paddled (some of) the waters of the...

Pruned the sunflowers this morning to allow more light and air into the Milagro corn and bean field now that the corn is tasseling....

Hunkered down inside, curtains closed in the blessing of refrigerated air pumping through the hacienda while corn curls it’s leaves and...

Down to the last card of South African pearly shell buttons carried with me crossing the ocean (for a heart of gold) all those more than...

I’m surrounded by a jungle of them. Every one of these beauties was self, bird or wind sown. I have jars and packets of sunflowers seeds...

I know I said I harvested the last of this season’s rhubarb yesterday. I lied. I found another growth of rhubarb asking for harvest. I’m...

This is the reason I have just canceled my camping and paddling trip to Roper Lake State Park in AZ next week. I just happened to look at...

Bok choy, havasu peppers and a purple bell pepper came in from the garden this morning along with the last of the rhubarb for this...