The following posts were taken from the website for Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields, which we operated from 2010 until 2019. They offer a window into our lives on the farm and the ways the farm changed us. In 2018 we decided to end our lavender business but we continue to work with our land in ways that bring balance and health. Posts on this website will continue to follow our work.
Charlie Toledo Speaking at Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House on June 22: One Water
Charlie Toledo, Executive Director Charlie Toledo, Executive Director of the Suscol Intertribal Council in Napa, CA, spoke with me last week about the drought and the water situation in California. This is part four of that interview. Charlie helped author the Watershed Development plan for Napa County in its seminal years, 1992-1995, and… Read more »
Charlie Toledo Speaking at Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House on June 22: One Water
Drought: Charlie Toledo, Part Three: Aquifers Charlie Toledo, Executive Director of the Suscol Intertribal Council in Napa, CA, spoke with me last week about the drought and the water situation in California. This is part three of that interview. Charlie helped author the Watershed Development plan for Napa County in its seminal years, 1992-1995, and… Read more »
Charlie Toledo Speaking at Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House on June 22: One Water
Charlie Toledo, Executive Director Charlie Toledo, Executive Director of the Suscol Intertribal Council in Napa, CA, spoke with me last week about the drought and the water situation in California. This is part two of that interview. Charlie helped author the Watershed Development plan for Napa County in its seminal years, 1992-1995,… Read more »
Charlie Toledo Speaking at Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House on June 22: One Water
Charlie Toledo, Executive Director Even though many of us in Northern California will be receiving more rain this week, California continues to be in dire straights water wise. We must change our ways! We have built large cities in deserts, cities dependent on rivers that are dying largely due to our mismanagement and lack of… Read more »
Nature's First Green, Afforded by the Recent Rain
Nature’s First Green, Afforded by the Recent Rain The world has become gold green in Napa; the sunrise, magical; the grass so green it hurts your eyes. The drought persists, however. We are not seduced by the greening. This week we will post a series of interviews with Suscol Intertribal Counsel’s Charlie Toledo, who has… Read more »
It’s been waiting all winter for this! Last week this time we could not have imagined that we would receive eight inches in eight days… and 7.5 inches in the last 48 hours, and still going, bringing us to 82% of our normal for this time of year in Napa. Our small irrigation… Read more »
Rainy Day Meditation on Drought
Patient meditation as lower pond fills. Two frogs woke me in the night, croaking back and forth right under our bedroom window. Yes, I welcomed them! I haven’t heard them in weeks! It is raining at last! Almost 3 inches these 24 hours and it’s still pouring, periods of heavy rain predicted throughout… Read more »
Finish Pruning and Rain
Pruned vines and the reminder. Ramon has finished pruning this morning. He always races himself, and this year is his fastest ever, helped by the lack of rain, for sure! Over the weekend we got half an inch of rain, which will make it easier for the next stage: tying the pruned canes…. Read more »
Drain line into lower pond—waiting. Drought as Consultant We have had no measurable rainfall since December 7, and only 2.3 inches in so far this season. It is easy to feel anxious. Our ponds are effectively empty (the heron still fishes for Ramon’s fish in the larger pond, but he can stand at any place… Read more »
Crystallization Period Begins, and two Books to Go With It If there were ever a book to meditate upon during this crystallization period of reception to cosmic forces (January 15-February 15,) it would be Dennis Klocek’s most recent Sacred Agriculture: The Alchemy of Biodynamics (Lindisfarne Books, 2013.) Stand forewarned: it is a book best read… Read more »
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