Fresh olives ready to be picked next week.
Field Trip: Villa Vignamaggio, Italy
We took a little break from gardening here in the states to visit the Chianti region in Italy for a friend's wedding last week. Little did we know we would…
One of several Pomegranate trees on the property.
Field Trip: Arlington Gardens, Pasadena
During the Garden Writers Association Symposium in September, bus loads of eager gardenerds stepped off to visit Arlington Gardens, an historic site in Pasadena, CA. It is "Pasadena's only designated…
Moringa seeds - loose and ready for the taking...swapping.
Field Trip: Heirloom Expo Seed Swap
This will be my last post about the 2015 Heirloom Expo, but it's one that couldn't be left out. Every year the Heirloom Expo hosts a seed swap for those…
Yours truly and Will Allen of Growing Power
Field Trip: Ocean View Farms and Will Allen
I had the pleasure of arranging a visit to Ocean View Farms organic community garden for a group of innovative folks who are working to solve several issues at once:…
Round the corner to the entrance to the farm and you're greeted with roses and hay bales.
Field Trip: Cal Poly Pomona’s Kellogg Ranch
It was 5:30 in the morning when I got in the car to drive the hour it would take to get to Cal Poly Pomona. By the time I arrived…
Not so foreign, but I'd never seen a quince in person before.
Field Trip: Little Farm in Encino, CA
We're about to take you on a journey to a magical place; a place where tropical and rare fruits grow in abundance, where grapevines climb arbors, where goats, chickens, rabbits…