NOMAD DREAMING

Today’s harvest to add to the dried pulse winter food store. Vegan Hoppin’ John to greet 2021 at my house. #6thavenueshala...

Angels in the architecture not devils in the details. . Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Daily harvest is moving towards being dominated by the dry beans for storage which I pick as the pods dry on the bush. Today I found a...

Hillsboro, New Mexico where I go to the Farm Market in Saturdays to buy Animas Creek honey.

Saturday brunch: Jamaican/Mexican fusion: Spicy, garlicky callaloo cooked ital style, topped with walnuts and red chile and zucchini...

Experiencing the Gila Cliff Dwellings, an ancestral Puebloan archaeological site, (Mogollon Culture in the 1200s) and National Historic...

Hot August nights mean it’s high season for little biting gnats who swarm my face in the dawn and dusk hours. My homemade essential oil...

On this day 11 years ago, 27 August 2009, I wore a brand new dress which I made of Ghanaian fabric, and a bolero made from South African...

I have seen the Mountains of the Moon at the end of my driveway. Waxing quarter moon 65%. ‘Ole Pau in Hawaiian Moon Phases E ulu i ka...

Corn nixtamalization has been one of my kitchen(and backyard) alchemy projects of the past few weeks. Nixtamalization, besides being...

Heron acted like I was invisible. Lake Roberts. Gila National Forest. 22 August 2020

I dedicated a day this week to re-earthing and recalibrating in the Gila National Forest, while also collecting fallen wood and cones to...

Sunrise Saturday 22 August found me at the Emory Pass overlook. A very smoky sky from wildfires raging across the western USA made for...

Lunch today. West African inspired black bean and sweet potato cakes with a spicy garlic tomato sauce, fresly harvested, lightly steamed...

Since early March, have been growing, harvesting and drying calendula, lavender and bee balm flowers with a plan to make soothing,...

How to deal with triple digit Chihuahuan desert August temperatures? Chilled lemongrass tea: peridot green, this jewel of a beverage is...

One of this week’s kitchen alchemical projects (there are several ongoing): garlic spay for the kitchen view garden cowpeas, which are...

In the heart of the Historic Hotsprings District: this abandonment caught my eye. I don’t know the history of this apartment complex, or...

A tiny whirling dervish, a little speck of iridescent emerald, feeding on the zinnias this morning. This is why I retired my glass...

Three weeks on from The Storm That Ate Downtown and the front (south facing) sections of the garden are thriving. Foregrounding the...