California Homestead: 2021 Spring
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Reading Time: 3 minutes As spring flowers bloom, we share some of our favorite images from around the property.
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a list of activity recommendations for a day in Los Gatos, California, USA.
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this post we share photos from an afternoon in Capitola, California, a charming Monterey-coast seaside town.
Reading Time: 3 minutes This post traces a 1.5 mile walk along West Cliff Drive, bringing visitors from Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk to Lighthouse Field State Beach, Santa Cruz, California USA.
Reading Time: 7 minutes This is a list of activity recommendations for a day in Valencia, Spain.
Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post we share photos from one of our favorites walks in San Francisco, California, USA. Trace our path from Fisherman’s Wharf to Chrissy Field onto Fort Point National Historic Site, which offers closeup views of the Golden Gate Bridge.
This six mile walk can be completed in a day. Consider splitting the time into two separate experiences if you are interested in brunching/lunching, shopping, visiting Alcatraz or lazing at the beach.
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is a list of recommendations for Japantown, San Francisco, California, USA.
Reading Time: 5 minutes California state’s 2020 stay-at-home orders had us shift our plans from travel to working on an at-home permaculture effort.
In 2021 our focus is ongoing care and maintenance of what we began last year. We will highlight our thoughts from ideation to production, our observations, learnings and photos as the year progresses.
Reading Time: 8 minutes This post describes a road trip across the western board of the Republic of North Macedonia, from Ohrid to the country’s capital city, Skopje.
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this post we share key lessons learned from the first year permaculture effort based in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 9.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Opting to travel by private car can be a more time and cost-efficient way of moving throughout a country. It also gives you greater access to hard-to-reach, off-the-beaten track towns that may provide insight into a country’s character beyond the major cities.
Below we share our process for gathering car rental quotes and how we organized our findings for later reference.
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this post we describe the differences between a travel converter and adapter.
Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post we share photos of our first experience harvesting pomegranates from a mature tree on the property and include a recipe for pomegranate jelly.
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post we share photos of our first experience growing and harvesting pumpkins.
Reading Time: < 1 minute In this post we share the items we keep in our car that have proven helpful on a day-to-day and emergency basis.