Propagating Rose Geranium
The tiny cuttings will spend the winter in our greenhouse and be planted in the spring after frost danger. Propagating Rose Geranium Moon in Aquarius, an air or flower day, and we propagate 288 rose geranium cuttings this morning. We work with the aromatics on “flower days,” days that the moon is in an air… Read more »
Natural Nematode Suppression
Nematode marigold Several years ago we planted a marigold that was designated as a suppressant of nematodes, and we have not had to replant since! The five foot stalks bear tiny yellow marigold flowers which produce copious seeds, which then scatter throughout the garden. They sprout later in summer and we leave them… Read more »
Recycling Olive Branches Part of our goats' diet includes prunings of olive trees, other brush, you name it!
Goat Waving Olive Branch (of which most is in her mouth) Part of our goats’ diet includes prunings of olive trees, other brush, you name it! This week they are busy at work on branches from three olive trees in our courtyard. There is a cyclical process here: the olive leaves nourish the… Read more »
Walking the Land:There is an old saying: the best fertilizer is the farmer's feet.
Walking the Land There is so much you learn from walking your land each day! There is an old saying: the best fertilizer is the farmer’s feet. I understand this in many ways. Most days my goat companions walk with me, along with the dogs, of course. There is an implicit order: who walks… Read more »
Is Nature's Last Hue Gold, too?
Is Nature’s Last Hue Gold, too? This season the gold is what draws you in, like that first gold of spring. But now, with the veil thinning between worlds, the gold takes us down, especially today. It’s been there all summer, that gold, maybe even ever since Frost proclaimed nature’s first green is gold! Is it… Read more »
Rose Geranium: Last harvest and distillation of the season
last harvest We have completed our last harvest and distillation of the season! Always this is an illusory feeling of relief! Illusory, because there is ever so much to do before the rains begin, and never more so than this year with our replanting of lavender, rose geranium, and helichyrsum. But there are also compost… Read more »
Whispering Persimmons
Lisa and Jesse harvest persimmons with pruners. They talk to you as you work: the persimmons, that is. The late afternoon sun is cool; the October earth, Mediterranean dry. The work goes quickly. Images come, for that is how persimmons speak: Trap gophers! Interplant more rose geranium! Irrigate earlier for larger fruit! Jesse, Lisa, and… Read more »
Happy Accidents and Antioxidants
Sun kissed Fuyu persimmon Happy Accidents and Antioxidants You may not find this imperfect fruit in your grocery, but if you cannot find one like it, it is a shame! Those incidents that cause imperfections: intense sun, worms, drought, also cause a stress response in the fruit that develops antioxidants. Because we consumers want perfect fruit,… Read more »
Lavender Replant Timing
438 lavender plants, 1/3 of Lot Sophia Moon in an Air sign, perfect for aromatic plants such as lavender, and today we plant 430 lavender plants. It has taken several days to prepare the ground in hills with new irrigation. Our last (and first) planting lasted 14 years, so it is… Read more »
Silently Drawn into the Present
Silently Drawn into the Present A quote from Rumi arrives on the Internet this morning: Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. The dappled shadows of the wind-whipped trees flash again and again on the wall this dawn and I think, yes, That. … Read more »
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