NOMAD DREAMING

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...

I have always imagined that a desert hacienda would have hollyhocks (Alcea rosea) out front. Like the dusty little Karoo towns of the old...

Today’s harvest: dried peas for soup and pea flour. And some seed to bank to ensure there will be plant peas in 2022. #6thavenueshala

Looking into the heart of blue breadseed poppies. #6thavenueshala

It’s a sublime iris and Madame Moonflower party this morning at the Mountain View and Meditation bench. The iris, acquired at the...