NOMAD DREAMING

I learned recently, in Saguaro National Park (in SE Arizona), that saguaro cactus first bloom between 35 and 85 years of age and average...

My recent bivouac in the Sonoran desert gave me a ringside seat on desert cottontail rabbits and desert birds, attracted by the seed cone...

Glamping it up in the Sonoran Desert, south of Tucson, Arizona, on the edge of Saguaro National Park. While I could have set up inside...

On a recent wildflower walk in Saguaro National Park I chose a glamping option from Air BnB for my overnight bivouac: a converted vintage...

Poppies! A great drift of them greeted me when I went out back just before sunrise today. The variety is Hungarian Blue Bread Seed which...

This morning’s little garden infrastructure project: a trellis for Lablab purpureus (dolichos beans or hyacinth beans) to grow up at the...

Caribbean Fusion brunch today. The meal was largely based on what the early morning harvest delivered into the kitchen: carrots, fava...

Just before sunrise, with my dawn cup of tea at the Meditation and Mountain View bench, I met Madame Moonflower (datura wrightii)...

Went for a little walk with some elders of the plant kingdom in the Sonoran desert recently. I learned that Saguaro cacti are around 75...

The first breadseed poppy is slowly unfurls into the early morning sun. There are lots of buds too. I’m hoping for a good harvest of...

Saturday brunch: garlicky, spicy beet hummus on Hopi blue corn cakes (2017 harvest from my first Milagro cornfield garden the the Four...

Just when I thought I had harvested all the autumn sowing of beets, I discover another stand of them hiding under the bolting rainbow...

Janis truck and I went on a date at Caballo lake with a 29 year old at the tail end of April (last Friday). A 1992 Scrambler by Ocean...

With almost the last of the autumn sown beets, I experimented with a beet hummus. Or dip if you are a hummus purist and hold that it must...

Seems I maligned the small Vicia faba (aka broad beans or fava bean) patch. In spite of struggling with (early season and late season)...

Chickpeas (cicer arietinum) are full of buds and delicate white pea flowers. This is my first time ever growing these pretty, lacy...

Early morning walk in Sevillita National Wildlife Refuge. Blooming cactus. It’s the season.

White perennial petunias are perfuming the hacienda from the household altar today. I had to discipline the exuberance this morning, as...

I’ve been pondering a backyard safety hazard a while now. The person I commissioned to make my washing line was quite short, resulting...

It’s not just the Mexican chairs look better against the colour choice of the old mermaids. Mizuna, sown from seed late last September to...