Heirloom Carrots From My Fire Escape Garden

I'm having an occult relationship with my garden in The City.

"The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged.

They nod to me, and I to them." ~Emerson 

Great Grand Father Oak, Petaluma CA

My friend, The Great Grand Father Oak. Standing before it, its megalith like mass and strength can be sensed in the observer's own body. This tree is a guardian of that place, which has many many eyes all around. The Great Oak offers spirit medicine of fortitude and power, entering my body as if by an electric current that magnifies in intensity; synchronized and magnifying in proportion to the growing level of reverence in my heart. I lift my eyes to the sky, now with my own roots deep deep down commingled with Hirs, and just then a lone wind rises and howls in the branches above me.

Way of the Rabbit: Hometown Shrines: Guest Post from Norm Halm

To read the story and see more images, please click the link below.

Way of the Rabbit: Hometown Shrines: Guest Post from Norm Halm: Gentle Reader, I am thrilled with the way the Hometown Shrines project is growing. I have received several e-mails from folks who are will...

Imbolc 2012~ Winter's Light Grows Stronger

Para Siempre, Juanita MORE!

"Para Siempre"

Portrait of drag super star Juanita MORE! by Norm Halm, featured on page 133 of her new coffee table masterpiece, JM!. Get your copy of the book at this link:  JM! The Book
www.juanitamore.com

Welcome Autumn

Sonoma County Wine Grapes

The harvest moon has passed and today the autumnal equinox brings fall.

Organic Heirloom Veggies From My Garden

Organic Blue Heirloom Beans
&
Organic Rainbow Heirloom Carrot From My Garden

They really are this color!


These gorgeous and delicious rare vegetable varieties are my answer to the industrial food system. I grew them myself, respectfully and organically. The flavor was similar to their prosaic supermarket counterparts, the common green beans and the common orange carrots. Yet they were very different; richer, exotic, more fragrant, sweeter, earthier, even floral. These homegrown rare variety vegetables nourished far more fully, and in many more ways than I have ever experienced before.