Lavender partially harvested at goat barn. A Cool Drink for Hot Times! For the best limeade ever, try our recipe: Lavender Limeade Heat 1 1/2 cups of sugar, 2 cups of water, 1/4 cup of dried lavender flowers and the zest of a lime until the sugar has dissolved. Cool and strain. Use to sweeten… Read more »
Smoky Talks Book Review of Snakes, by Patricia Damery
JUNE 27, 2011 · 4:20 PM ↓ Jump to Comments Smoky Talks Book Review of Snakes, by Patricia Damery Snakes, by Patricia Damery Review by Smoky Zeidel, Author of Observations of an Earth Mage, The Cabin, and Redeeming Grace. Fisher King Press, 2011, $17.97 Someone who reads as much as I read obviously has a love affair… Read more »
Guest Blog: Part Three of Interview of Charlie Toledo, Executive Director of Suscol Intertribal Council, with Lisa Murgatroyd, Part Three
First Prototype of Suskol House, Native American Healing and Cultural Center in Chiles-Pope Valley. Photo by C. Toledo. Can we have effective stewardship of the land if we do not recognize its ancestral heritage —how it was tended before Western Europeans arrived, the ways it passed from generation to generation, the impact on all by… Read more »
Part Two: Interview with Charlie Toledo: First People’s Sacred Relationship with the Land
Charlie Toledo, Executive Directore Soscol Intertribal Council Guest Blog: Interview of Charlie Toledo, Executive Director of Suscol Intertribal Council, with Lisa Murgatroyd. Charlie will be speaking at the Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House on June 18, 2011, at 11 am. Part Two: Interview with Charlie Toledo: First People’s Sacred Relationship with the Land… Read more »
Charlie Toledo Speaking at Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House on June 22: One Water
Charlie Toledo, Executive Director Guest Blog Interview by Lisa Murgatroyd Charlie Toledo Speaking at Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House on June 22: One Water Part One of a Three Part Series Charlie Toledo, Executive Director of the Suscol Intertribal Council in Napa, CA, will speak on First People’s Agriculture at 11 am, Saturday,… Read more »
June 18 Open House Speaker: Ami Mautner
June 18 Open House Speaker: Ami Mautner Ami Mautner of Napa Valley Apothecary will be presenting at Our Open House on June 18 at 2 pm on The Many Healing Uses of Lavender. The following is her guest blog. You can also visit her at the Napa Farmer’s Market this summer. Napa Valley Apothecary, First… Read more »
Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House, June 18, 2011 June 18, 2011 10 am to 4 pm Please join us for a day of tours, talks, sensory delights! Sip our lavender limeade, taste lavender culinary goodies, meet our goats, amble through vineyards and lavender! Our estate grown dried and distilled lavender products will be for… Read more »
Equisetum Tea: decrease our use of sulfur in the vineyards is the use of equisetum tea. Step-by-step guide to preparing Equisetum Tea at home.
Equisetum Tea Measuring the dried equisetum for tea. One of the reasons that we can decrease our use of sulfur in the vineyards is the use of equisetum tea. Never is the difference between conventional and Biodynamic farming more evidenced! In conventional farming fungicides and sulfur (not a chemical and thereby also acceptable in organic… Read more »
Tiny grape clusters just beginning to bloom. More Good News and Bad News This time: the “bad news” first— it is raining and the grapes are just beginning to bloom. Once our viticulturist told us that in our dry Mediterranean climate, rain is never bad. Indeed, the vineyards and lavender are getting a late season… Read more »
The Good News and the Bad News First the Good News: We returned from three weeks away to find the vines with forearm length canes and fully formed grape clusters (Chardonnay, not yet bloomed). The vines have loved the spring rains! They were just unfolding tiny first leaves at the time we left for… Read more »
© 2025 Patricia Damery.
Recent Comments