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Savory Wolfberry Amaranth Balls
Hello friends, Amy here enjoying another great year for the wolfberry bush (Lycium fremontii …I think) in my yard. Tucson’s native species of the Chinese goji berry, they are similarly packed with...
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Eat Mesquite and More: a Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Living
Happy Summer, friends! Amy here, on a hot, hot morning, sitting the shade. Have you seen Desert Harvester’s new edition of the cookbook??? It is 400 pages! with lots of color photographs and original...
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An Exultation of Figs!
Fig alert!–They are ripening all over Baja Arizona! Salivating allowed– Figs provide much more than yummy fruit and blessed shade. Come learn more about their super nutrition, their lore and history,...
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Savor–with your Sniffin’ Sense!
I was down on hands and knees in olfactory ecstasy, to sniff my lonesome but persistent hyacinth’s sweet bouquet. Each February it appears in my little orchard’s undergrowth to remind me that spring...
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Wild Rhubarb Upside-down Cake!
Wild desert rhubarb–canagria–is up from its hiding place deep in sandy desert soil triggered by our wonderful winter 2019 rains– ready to harvest for upside-down cake! (MABurgess photo) Known as...
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Ornamental Medicinals–for Showy Color and Healing Gifts
Yellow trumpet flower–tronador (Tecoma stans)–is super-showy in a desert landscape. It will bloom multiple times through warm and hot seasons triggered by rainfall or watering. Its foliage and flowers...
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Awesome Amaranth
Jacqueline here with a confession. I confess I am not a fussy gardener. I prefer plants that I can plant and forget about until harvest time. Likewise, in the kitchen, I prefer foods that are easy to...
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Perennial Herbs for Honey
Thyme is tasty in the kitchen and a great herb for honey bees. Jacqueline Soule here to discuss perennial herbs that can be grown in Sonoran home landscapes. Herbs that both honey bees and our native...
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Pear Prickly Pear Desert Dessert
Hello, Amy here, preparing a dessert for some new friends completely new to the desert, passing through on their way to Costa Rica. A few pears that had seen some travel were sitting on the kitchen...
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Marvelous Mints
Mint is one of those plants that want to spread everywhere in the garden, and that can be a good thing if you use a lot of mint – like I like to. Mint is useful for all manner of beverages, from mint...
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Pretty & Pretty Zesty – Oxalis
Jacqueline Soule here today, posting at the end of the month – in time to get ready for next month! For February, I wrote about the edible flowers called heartease (also called pansy and violet)....
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Heartease
In a few short days it will be February – and it can be a dreary month, often rainy and cold, even in southern Arizona. All hearts need some easing in this upcoming shortest of months. Luckily, here in...
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