This site is designed to be a portal for connection, collaboration, abundance, and creativity.  Welcome!  Through various forms of place-based work and expression I seek to share what I know and love with others: where I live, what I do, what matters, and what inspires me. If building shelter, growing food, collecting sun and rain, and becoming intimate with the place you live and love interest you, delve further. No green thumb? Don’t know a prickly pear from a devil’s claw? Never built anything? Think you’re not an artist? You’re in the right place too! Browse colorful site images, sample blog entries, and participate in hands-on classes, comprehensive workshops, and how-to-tutorials. Learn about Arizona and the Sonoran Desert, about growing, gathering, and preserving foods, about practical passive-solar projects, and about water … More...

HEAT WAVE

WHEN: October 4, 2014 TIMES: HEAT WAVE! Hands-On Workshops, 10am-1pm; HEAT WAVE Evening Event, 6-10pm WHERE: Casa … More...

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From the Blog

"What we love we shall grow to resemble."  Bernard of Clairvaux She sunk roots deep downward over decades, like fingers, arms, filaments of love anchoring in the volcanic tumble of rocks and ground, spectrum of mauves, … More...

I learned about stupas from my dear friend Geneve, who made several treks to India to visit her guru.  She returned with postcards of stupas visited there, and I became enamored of them.  I'm no expert, but here's what I … More...

Most gardeners know that, regardless of where you sow and grow, output never truly equals input; that is, loss is always part of the production equation.  Crop loss may be caused by pests, climate factors, insufficient … More...