September

Drying herbs and chiles from the garden.




Compost. Yeah!






Okra







I confess to getting distracted by the beauty of this world on a regular basis.





After the edible salt marsh plants. After swimming in the ocean in the pouring rain. After the dolphin and full rainbow across the bay. After the most incredible of days.


Its whats for dinner.

Ahh.. We have been under 90 for days now. Its particularly 'cool' in the woods here and there. There, where I went last weekend for an Ethno Botany Intensive. Plant walks, plant swims. I learned so much and laughed so hard. Professional plant geeks. Im such a novice. But oh, Im a learnin. I learned two 'new' to me edible flowers for salads. Okra flowers, which are the most beautiful and sweet little Sida, a patch of which I just spotted growing next to our circle garden. They are tiny, peach colored wild flowers. And fun to nibble.

And speaking of nibbling. Yesterday i shared eggplant, green beans and okra with a friend and teachers at my childrens school. And senate bill S510 came to mind. Now, Im not a 'politically active' person. I vote and I lay low. But this bill, I keep hearing about it and I dont like what i hear. I did some research and what I got from it is that it could affect sharing your food with friends and neighbors, like i love to do. And it would, most likely, negatively affect small farmers and farmers markets. Making licensing prohibitively expensive. I ask you to do some research, check it out and write your senator. I did.

'I am nobodys. I belong to this earth. I am powerful beyond measure.'