Davis Life Magazine

The Pence Gallery 20th Annual Garden Tour is now just a memory but ideas picked up there are no doubt simmering in the minds of the many gardeners who visited the 8 lovely far West Davis gardens featured this year.  I imagine many of those ideas will soon be incorporated into other gardens around town. [...]

Over the years we’ve ‘done’ Picnic Day in different ways. When our kids were young we watched the parade downtown then followed it to campus, heading to the baby-chick-holding lab before wandering about without a plan or any pressure. We watched the rodeo once, years ago, which I remember as good fun but just learned [...]

When I stepped out into Kathryn Thorpe’s lovely garden on a rainy Friday afternoon the first thing that caught my eye was the long row of cymbidium orchids that were either in bloom or preparing to bloom. I know very little about orchids but it was immediately obvious that Kathryn was the right person to [...]

Ripe lemons still abound in Davis encouraging the savvy gardener to plan ahead for those hot summer afternoons we know are coming.  One of my favorite times to enjoy a beer is as a signal to my brain that enough is enough and I should stop the madness of marathon gardening before I find myself [...]

Eating seasonally and locally makes a lot of sense. The food is fresh, environmental impact is reduced, it’s often cheaper, and you know where and how your food was grown. But what if you crave out of season tastes? You can satisfy that need by preserving food when it is in abundance and enjoying it [...]