Skip to content

Category Archives: Food

Sponsored by : Mandy and Juni Davis (no thanks to Greg)

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Dear Davises, Can you believe that they have Honey Gardens stuff in Amarillo, TX?! I’m feverish and have a sore throat and picked up a bunch of ingredients for my own swichel. I’ve been thinking about Greg and his earplugs a lot today because after driving through the desert for a few days with the [...]

Also filed in Recreation, Self-Care | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

First Annual Medlarama

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Earlier this week I joined in a work crew composed of the ag-nouveau proponents, Silver Lake Farms, Homegrown Evolution, Winnetka Farms and Joseph Shuldiner. We harvested a crop of Medlar from an orchard in the hills north of Tehachapi. The history of the fruit and our intersection with it are beautifully described by David Karp [...]

Also filed in Inspirational Source Material, Plants, Projects | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Medlar : Popular 18th Century Persian Fruit

Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Covergirl of the 2008 January – February California Rare Fruit Growers’s journal “Fruit Gardener,” the Medlar is a fruit in the rose family that must be over-ripened almost to the point of rotting to reach its peak of flavor. It is This process is called bletting. I’ve been hearing about these fruits and was [...]

Also filed in Inspirational Source Material, Plants | | Comments (0)