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My lost summer and a new garlic crop
What do you do in wine country when you don’t wine?
You garden, you celebrate nature, you socialize at the Healdsburg or Windsor (California) Farmers’ Markets, and you get to know the latest in regional economics and local sustainability. You learn to celebrate your neighbors and friends who produce the foods you eat. Gleason chickens…plump and juicy; Bernier garlic varieties…the best in the world…Trull family vinegars…true [...]
Stewardship—again.
I’ve been thinking a lot about NASA’s “mission to bomb the moon” and our woeful lack of healthy stewardship of the Earth. What makes us so arrogant as a species, to believe that we are pursuing a “new frontier” by being destructive to another celestial body? I read that the United States is trying to [...]
Rain-battered plants, finches, feeders, and other stuff.
Today’s air wafts the softness of the after-rain. The world is washed clean and every parched plant and tree has been replenished with streams of quenching water. While the tomatillo, tomato, and squash plants are a little worse for wear in their shaggy autumn wardrobes, the Swiss chard has taken on a new life. Even [...]