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 [...]
The sphere of in-town delight for wild things in backyard habitats is growing, if my small social world is an indicator. Our son now calls for me to come with the camera when he encounters the critters that delight us. Last week, I was able to capture the “smiling” face of a Pacific treefrog, because [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
