NOMAD DREAMING

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...

It’s a time of Daylily delight. I’ve lost count of how many different varieties of Hemerocallis I have planted since starting this...

June back garden update: hoping for rain, I toured the back garden under stormy skies. The spineless opuntia is covered in buds! Yay!...

I love this time of year when the front porch is screened by green, cool and cavelike for a contemplative, pre sunrise pot of tea. Barn...

A handful of chickpea pods seemed dry enough to gather this morning. Each chubby little pod, about the size of the top joint of my pinky...

First tomato harvest of the season. Two pounds of green tomatoes are simmering on the stove with aromatic spices, apple cider vinegar,...

In early spring, when I first put up the cattle panels across the front, it looked jarring and prison like. They are intended for melon...

Fire season has started. My Saturday ramble in the Gila National Forest had some new road signs en route. The fires currently burning in...

In the ongoing pursuit of black flowers, I sowed Black Beauty poppy seed this season. Flowers are unfurling a deep burgundy almost black...

My new made in Canada from recycled plastic compost bin, thanks to a US Dept of Agriculture (federal) grant to stimulate recycling and...

Garlic harvest is almost done, a month or so earlier than I was expecting. The bulbs are mostly heavy and full so I was reading the plant...

And the beet (harvest) goes on: Detroit Reds, planted early spring 2021. Also harvested the first of the Havasu peppers. They added a...

Little peanut seedlings are exploding from the earth. Looking like a very good germination rate for both the red and the black varieties...

Gem squash have germinated! In the process of searching for seed of this quintessential South African summer squash - so much tastier...

Lake Caballo at dawn. The possibility of this numinousness, of this kind of prayer, is why I choose to live where I do.

Working with shweshwe today. I’ve carried a small stash of traditional brown and blue shweshwe cloth around with me for over 20 years...

The darling buds of May open into colour everywhere. For someone who focuses on food gardening there are a lot of blooming flowers out...