Eat locally, seasonally produced food. Buy direct from the farmers and the makers. Grow your own, make your own. Start a farmers' market today.
Posted in Bees, Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter on Oct 24th, 2009
FARM STAND MARFA NEWSLETTER OCT 24
MARFA GARDEN DIARIES
Bee Journal Sept 19
The September day was sunny and warm. The West Texas sky wrapped around us. Clouds loped through the blue canopy. I was riding in the honey truck with Wilborn Elliott, the local beekeeper. We were headed to his new bee yard, one he had just [...]
Posted in Bees, Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter, Gardening on Sep 26th, 2009
FARM STAND MARFA NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 26
A September Blow and Balls of Bees
This morning a blow is coming from the northeast that makes me feel like I’m in Maine. Every so often here in the desert a sea wind seems to blow fresh and fierce across the struggling grasslands. The sea- like wind holds a prehistoric [...]
Posted in Bees, Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter, Gardening on Oct 4th, 2008
FARM STAND MARFA NEWSLETTER OCT 4
Wilborn In the Garden of Tomatoes
Wilborn Elliott, a beekeeper in these parts for some 77 years, spent a recent morning with me in the tomato patch, repairing the irrigation hoses and searching for tomatoes in the jungle of heirloom plants. These are the same South American natives that began their [...]
Posted in Bees, Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter on Apr 19th, 2008
FARM STAND MARFA NEWSLETTER APRIL 19TH
THE BEE IS NOT A MACHINE
In a cave in Valencia, Spain there is a painting of two Paleolithic men hanging off of a cliff by ropes. From a hole high in the cliff, the painting shows a man extracting a honeycomb and placing it into a basket.
Egyptians may have been [...]
Posted in Bees, Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter, Gardening on Aug 25th, 2007
FARM STAND MARFA
Newsletter
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Notes From the Garden: The Bee, the Blossom and the Beginning of Civilization, by Sandra Harper
Until recently, as Charles C. Mann writes in his book 1491, historians considered “the four wellsprings of human civilization: the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, in modern Iraq, home of Sumer, oldest of all complex polities; the Nile [...]
