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Farmer Craig’s Spread (Greenview Farm): No Okra In Sight

November 19, 2015

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One of these things is not like the other

I drove my awful Chevy Cruze rental car (who makes these things?!) down to visit farmer Craig’s organic vegetable farm operation in Rhode Island. The place is called Greenview Farm. Craig is a dear old college friend who started farming full time 20 years ago and never looked back. He has about 20 acres in cultivation now, rotating crops, building up the soil, and generally leaving the land in way better shape than it started in. His produce has a reputation for excellence and his business is thriving.

Impressive. Craig and Emily are utterly dedicated to what they’re doing. The addition of three monkeys to the equation is leading to the usual loving chaos.

Farmer Craig, aka Mr Okra aka Dr Feelgood

The first greenhouse is about to get a new floor

Amazing to see this on November 18!

Hearty broccoli. Mine never looks this good.

Yeah, I know, Kale.

Gorgeous rich topsoil

Cover crop of oats and peas will be plowed under in the Spring

Winter crops still going

Keep em covered

Seats two hippies

On The VERGE! Dubai – biggest, tallest, glassiest!

April 6, 2015

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First – go to the biggest MALL and don’t buy anything. oh, some Converse Allstar tennis shoes. buy those.

ahhhhhhhhhh!

Now to the Tallest Building on Earth..You pay a lot, You get a lot.

Video a history of tallest buildings – as you rise 125 floors in 1.46 minutes.

You have arrived – 148 floors!

Dubai

From the inside. Son in glass.

Reflective Selfie

Have a coffee and a baclava *at the window* while you sit 148 floors up!

Back to the sweetest hotel in Abu Dhabi – Traders..

Traders hotel lobby

final dinner – beach and shisha.

النهاية

Dubee Dubee Dubee Dubaiaiaiai.

April 3, 2015

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Yes, it’s big and new!

Questions?

If visiting this excellent city, you must not miss the old part – Deira Creek, and the Souks. Real people selling real stuff.

Like Golden vests..

heading to spice souk.

Riding the Dhow across the Deira.

Son in wood.

locals and tourists use the service.

Arabian Coast, Wadi Bani Khalid, Misfat Al Abrein – Oman

April 1, 2015

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Toes in the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman

Seabird

hermit crab incognito.

stone and coral.

Limestone Sinkhole – from bikinis to burkas in this spot.

Wadi – cool, clear, nearly empty.

Son in Sandstone.

Al Abrein – Mountain Village. “Stoned me just like Jelly Roll..”

Ceramic pots hung in windows to keep water cool.

men wash in mountain stream.

Oman? yes, Oman – Desert, day 1

March 30, 2015

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Along the road are houses seemingly in impossible places – sand sand sand. But the government provides land to anyone who wants a spot. citizens build their own houses. government provides water. The Sultan is good here.

At the desert’s edge.

At the Bedouin Camp 20kil into the sand we stop. While they have modified their existence, they do raise goats and camels and live on this giant farm of sand.