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.
Harvest: Helichrysum Italicum
Helichrysum italicum just before harvest. Harvest: Helichrysum Italicum It is as if the sun snowed! Yellow blossoms dot the hillside, blossoms we harvest and distill today and tomorrow, Biodynamic flower days. The moon is in Gemini, an air sign, and an ideal time for an aromatic plant, as the energy is rising into the flower…. Read more »
Natural Ecosystems and Diversity: What's Blooming
mariposa tulip grows in the hot, open meadows Natural Ecosystems and Diversity: What’s Blooming The end of wild flower season brings some of my favorites: mariposa tulip, bog candle, and Neptune’s trident. They are all a part of the healthy diversity of this ecosystem in which we live…. Read more »
Special Event at the Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House: Healing Our Waters
Bokochi balls ready to go to work! Charlie Toledo, Executive Director of Suscol Intertribal Council, will follow her 11 am talk, One Water: From Rain to Seas, with a demonstration of the making and use of Bokochi balls, a probiotic mud-ball used in Costa Rica and well as our own Napa River… Read more »
Charlie Toledo Speaking at Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House on June 22: One Water
Charlie addressing a crowd last year. Standing room only, even for the goats. Come early! Charlie Toledo, Executive Director of Suscol Intertribal Council, will be speaking again at our Open House, 11 am on June 22, 2013. This year she will be addressing the water crisis and how the post colonial trauma to… Read more »
Glyphosate and Monsanto
Blogspot There are many David and Goliath stories these days, stories it seems we love to hear. Perhaps we are comforted to think our actions count, that we can really do something. Even the Dali Lama gets into it with the famous quote, If you think you are too small to make a difference, try… Read more »
Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House: June 22, 2013
Come meet Valley, the goat! Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House: June 22, 2013 Please join us for a day of tours, talks, sensory delights! June 22, 2012, 10 am to 4 pm Meet our goats! Sip our Lavender… Read more »
Flower Day: Working With the Moon
Rose geranium harvested and ready to be distilled. Flower Day: Working With the Moon Why is it that those of us who have developed sensitivities to subtle energies can feel intimidated by those rendered ignorant by lopsided rationalism? Traditionally the farmer intuitively knew these realms of existence,… Read more »
Where Goats Become Grass and Lupine
Grass and wildflowers almost obscure the stones of our goats’ graves. Where Goats Become Grass and Lupine This month five years ago we lost two of our dear pygmy goats, first Natalie, then Boris. They were quite old, 14 1/2 years, had long lives, but we miss… Read more »
Blooming Grape Bunches
Chardonnay grapes in full bloom. Blooming Grape Bunches When the bunches are in full bloom, they look like bottle brushes. Such a vulnerable two weeks! There is a forecast of possible showers, but this is definitely the time we do not want it. Our crop this year depends on the… Read more »
Three Weeks Away And…
Three Weeks Away And… Upon returning― The grass has grown gone to seed, yellowing. Grapes coming into bloom Radishes hot and pitted The season turned. Gaviota sickened by mysterious causes (now well. We are home) The dialogue continues: weeding, mowing, walking goats.
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