Picture Sundays: Free the Prickly Pear

March 1, 2015

...1. Trim prickly pear. 2. Leave in box in parkway. 3. Success! Someone took it. 4. More food for neighborhood. Correction: In my haste to put up this blog post I failed to mention that I put these pads out for people to propagate them. They are too mature to eat....

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Picture Sundays

Mrs. Homegrown

March 22, 2015

Picture Sundays

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...When I first saw this from a distance, I thought the fairies had been drawing on the leaves with black ink. A leaf miner is a much more prosaic explanation, but it’s still kind of beautiful....

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Picture Sundays: Sleeping Cats

Mr. Homegrown

March 29, 2015

Picture Sundays

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Picture Sundays: White Sage

Mr. Homegrown

April 5, 2015

Picture Sundays

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Picture Sundays: Agave Roast

Mr. Homegrown

April 12, 2015

Picture Sundays

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We had the great pleasure of attending a feast at the Malki Museum on the Morongo Reservation to sample a large assortment of Native American foods as well as celebrate the end of a agave harvest and roast. I’ll nudge Mrs. Homegrown to blog about it, but let’s just go over a few of the delicious items on this plate: agave, yucca, beavertail cactus, chola buds, two forms of acorn mush, venison, rabbit stew, fry bread and a salad with a white sage...

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