don’t inhale too hard.
Last Batch
Jalapeños with ghost pepper pollen, fermenting * Hot hot Hot
October 16, 2014
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Fall
October 8, 2014
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Fall walk.
From the enclave
At the end
During
Back home
And around
Slim pickings 10/8
Makes you hungry for beef stew and fresh bread.
The Last Tomato Sandwich of the Summer
September 21, 2014
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The equinox will be here in 2 days and it’s still summerlike in Virginia. Sadly, the garden is winding down. There’s stuff to harvest, but that won’t last too much longer.
Two hours of cleaning in the garden happened today.
Corn gone brown.
Corn gone.
Down.
Ghost peppers thriving. Watch out!
Equinox harvest
Sadly, that purple thing is an eggplant. I have failed as a gardener.
The volunteer sycamore is getting too big for the garden now.
Light imprecise. Catch it if you can.
September 18, 2014
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Wheat Spring Branch
Dizzy
Ware’s Mill
Kitty kitty
Artist Emily’s photo-take on our place.
August 27, 2014
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Sunday Paper
Esperanza’s Boot
Garden Apex in Late August
August 24, 2014
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Garden produce from two days.
When the garden is in high production, picking every day or two is pretty much a good idea. This is probably the last week of super high garden production. After two days, a sweep brought in: corn, tomato, onion, pepper, squash, basil, beet.
There’s plenty more to pick and the garden will likely go into October, but this is likely the peak of production for 2014.
A Spiritual Dog
August 20, 2014
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Puck meditates, focusing on rock placement.
Summer Harvest
July 31, 2014
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Odin the cat. Norse god or, uh…Dark flower..?
July 16, 2014
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Bloom this.
Walk Like an Egyptian
Where do solstice fires come from?
July 16, 2014
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Rocket launch? No, solstice bonfire!
Solstice fires take several months to build. After a big fire like the one we had July 5th, we start piling up wood for the next solstice six months out.
Here is what the “core” of the winter fire looks like so far. At the very bottom of the pile is a stack of huge locust logs that will cook all night.
1/4 of a winter solstice fire started in July. locust core.
And here is the garden. Because, well, just because.
The garden in mid-July.
