We are so incredibly lucky to experience these unseasonably warm days here in Sonoma County. At the Healdsburg Farmers’ Market last Saturday, I spoke with a winemaker who noted that this year’s harvest has been interminable. Exhaustion had set in well before the rains we had a few weeks ago that further lengthened the harvest. [...]
We’re, of course because we’re in California, still reaping the vegetable and fruit harvest of the season, as we ready to plant for the fall/winter/spring harvests. We have tens of pounds of tomatoes still to pick, pasilla and serrano chiles, bountiful bell peppers, copious cucumbers and squash. We also still have fruitful figs on the [...]
Even though the garden is showing the ravages of a time-worn summer, we have been given the great gift of plants newly coming into harvest. We planted in March, reaped much of our harvest in early July (an abundance of corn, a few green beans, squash, tomatoes, chiles, and a couple of bell peppers). The [...]
