NOMAD DREAMING

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...

Harvested all the Hungarian Blue poppyseed heads this morning. Wind had wrecked havoc with the plants. The potential for rain storm...

Fresh out of the ground: blue potatoes for supper tonight. Wasn’t expecting to be harvesting potatoes this early but, like the garlic,...

Almost black sweet peppers are ripening. The variety - a hybrid I am sure- is called Purple Bell. This plant was an impulse purchase...

Turtleback Mountain kept watch over first Sierra County Farmers Market of the season as the temperatures slowly climbed to a searing 97...