Reading Time: 2 minutesCalifornia’s cyclone bomb and atmospheric river (the convergence of two storms) brought about floods, high winds and rains to the Bay Area. Our beloved Oak Tree toppled due to the high winds.
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: 6 minutesLast year we took on a landscaping project to transform a large, uninspired space into a highly impactful, low-maintenance garden.
We’re proud to have finished this project and are now (impatiently) waiting to see all of the flora bloom this summer. This post details our experiences planning and delivering the project.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs spring flowers bloom, we share some of our favorite images from around the property.
Reading Time: 5 minutesCalifornia 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: 4 minutesIn this post we share key lessons learned from the first year permaculture effort based in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 9.
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn 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 minutesIn this post we share photos of our first experience growing and harvesting pumpkins.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share a brief history of watermelons, photos of homegrown watermelons being harvested, and a recipe for fresh watermelon juice.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share photos of year-round interest plants that enhance a permaculture effort based in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 9.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post we share how growth has progressed in a permaculture effort based in the Big Basin foothills of Northern California, United States of America.
If you have not already, check out the first and second post in this series.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post we describe how we made limoncello and share a recipe from the Amalfi Coast, Italy.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share a brief history of apricots in the United States and a three-ingredient apricot sorbet recipe.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post we share more photos of a permaculture effort based in the Big Basin foothills of Northern California, United States of America.
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn this post we share photos from a day at TerrAzoia, an organic farm that is nestled in the Sintra-Cascais Nature Park, Portugal.
We participated in two cooking classes: traditional Portuguese and Tunisian cuisine. During our midday break we hiked through the nature park to a lookout that offered sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean.
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn this post we share photos of a permaculture effort based in the Big Basin foothills of Northern California, United States of America.