I found this little garter snake in the orchard around dusk. He was very skinny with no bulge to digest so hadnt eaten yet and was no doubt cruising for a nice field mouse. i enjoy the presence of the various types of garter snakes i have here because they eat the mice without posing …
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Strawberry Picking
This endeavor began when my coworker arrived one morning with a bowl of washed strawberries with the tops cut off. She said she had gone strawberry picking at an orchard on the way to Stonewall. There are a lot of wineries and orchards out that way and so it is a notoriously dangerous area to …
Reviving the Orchard
Every spring i begin with a certain amount of fruit trees and by the following spring i have less. The winters are difficult for young trees to survive. I made myself two rules. Nothing citrus or tropical. No mandarin, lemon, or avocado trees. Also, nothing so young that its roots wont be deep enough to …