I do not have a green thumb. I live with a yard that belongs to a woman who most definitely did. Anyone care to guess what tree this is currently attached to ?

This morning, after Zen’s business, breakfast, and start of her first nap … and my checking email, reading blogs, and deciding how to survive the heat … I head a familiar bird. I had not seen it around since last fall. I quickly ran outside to see if indeed it was back. Sure enough it [...]

This year has been tough for fig harvest and storage. For, the weather has been cool and relatively wet. This is causing the figs to ripen more slowly and as I’ve noted before, figs swell up and burst their skin when they have excess water. Thus, they are slow to reach the picking stage. Since [...]

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The tomato harvest is an interesting process. The amount of control tomato growers now wield is both impressive and scary. The soil is bermed over a drip irrigation line and then covered in reflective plastic. The plants are poked through the plastic. The plants will eventually grow so large and so [...]

It was about this time last year that I wrote about the soybean harvest. Well, it is happening again, just on a different farm.
I was down on my farm doing some “general contractor” stuff - aka, grunt work that wasn’t going to get done otherwise. I needed to run the electrical wire for the [...]