Coccoloba uvifera
The female sea grape plants share fruit two years after transplantation during a late May gender reveal in the front yard. Explore a jelly recipe here.
Verdant Gender Reveal
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Biking the Pahayokee
Shark Valley Bike Trail
The Shark Valley Bike Trail is a ~fifteen mile loop in the Florida Everglades. Pahayokee is the Seminole word for the region, which means “grassy waters.” (Marjory Stoneman Douglas had a similar thought.)
Ardea herodias
Among others, alligators, park rangers, Athenian expats, great blue herons, Germans, fish, French Canadians, pig frogs, turtles, and Midwesterners mingle in the summer heat.
Shark Valley Bike Trail
Cyclists meander to the midpoint of the trail, a forty-five foot observation tower providing panoramic views from the highest elevation in the Everglades.
Shark Valley Bike Trail
Before ascending the concrete loop, massive cocoplum bushes offer up trailside nibbles.
Shark Valley Bike Trail
Shark Valley Bike Trail
Shark Valley Observation Tower
Shark Valley Bike Trail
Macro vistas stun.
Ipomoea sagittata
So do the micro ones.
June Foraging
Cantharellus cibarius
A bike ride to a secret spot off South Milledge reveals a neon patch of orange on the forest floor. Click here for a simple and delicious recipe by Isa Chandra Moskowitz.
Pink Invader
Albizia julibrissin
Futility
A futile dune and sea oat array in Flagler County now protect residents and wayward tourists along a stretch of A1A from the Atlantic Ocean.
Smoky Mountain Fungi
While hiking the Deep Creek Trail into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, coral, turkey tail and other curious fungi sprout from the humus below.
Love and Lunch
Green Light Over Canal Street
Living Plasma Globe
Nat Arnold Building
Red Earth Farm is home to Janisse Ray & Raven Waters. Janisse is a well-known environmental activist and author. My family came to know her when her first book was published and we’ve always been honored to call her a friend. (Ecology of a Cracker Childhood; Wild Card Quilt; Pinhook; Drifting into Darien; and The Seed Undergroundare among her works.) Raven, originally from western New York, oversees the operations of the farm and is an accomplished potter and artist.
At the heart of Red Earth Farm is the beautifully restored circa-1850 Pearson Farmhouse.
The farm is primarily for Janisse and Raven’s personal use, though they do limited retail with vegetables and livestock.
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