All around us: corn fields, the stalks dried out from the August sun. In between bouts of rain, the farmers…
A man in full works the soil, and takes pleasure from transforming the land into a plot ready to nurture…
Our cherry tomatoes surprised us this summer. It had stayed cool into June–not a surprise in Colares–but the days warmed…
The flavor of a nêspera, or loquat, reminds me of several things. First, an apricot, but it’s also tart-sweet, like…
We’re growing avocados. We have three viable plants, now holding their own in the Random Garden—the veritable highlight of our…
This morning I saw a squash blossom trumpeting its way through the tangled leaves of our Random Garden. Sigh. A…