Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis)
It’s mid-September, and the vast majority of endemic native plant species are done flowering for the season. However, in the last couple of weeks, one hold-out, Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis), also known as Chaparral Broom, has only just begun to bloom. Like...
Lotus & Minnie: Berry Spoiled Goats!
This, believe it or not, is our 300th blog post, so we thought we’d celebrate with Lotus and Minnie, and their favorite treat. We have a few different varieties of berries that grow wild on the property, much to the delight of the goats. California native...
Grilled Baba Ghannouj
This is where I come clean. I am NOT a fan of eggplant. I’m not. Honestly. I never have been. For me, more often than not, eggplant was always overcooked, mushy, and watery, and left little to be desired on either the flavor, or the texture front. Until...
Beeswax: Solar Wax Melter
One of the byproducts of harvesting honey is beeswax. A couple of weeks ago we took the last of our honey for the season from our hives. Although most of the frames will be reused for another year, a couple of frames were damaged during the extraction, and we also...
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