My bebes are growing 🥴 Planted these about 2 months ago. Water-saving native or native-adjacent plants: purple sage, black/brown eyed susans, and white sage

#gardening #garden #plants #nativePlants #nativeGardening #CaliforniaNativePlants #californiaNatives #CaNativePlants #CaNative

Chími Nu'am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen. By S. Olson (Karuk)

More than seventy delectable recipes that bring California’s Indigenous cuisines into kitchens today.

25% off preorder sale with the discount code PREORDER25 & this cookbook, Chími Nu'Am is on the list! Sale ends Fri 4/28/23.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ch-mi-nuam-sara-calvosa-olson/1143013108?ean=9781597146159

#Indigenous #Native #IndigenousFood #NDN #NativeCA #CaNative #recipes #HeydayBooks #Food

You can still sow Ca Wildflowers, great article in the LA Times on how to do it and where to get the seeds.

#CaNative #Superbloom

https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2023-01-12/want-glorious-spring-wildflowers-heres-what-you-should-scatter-right-now?fbclid=IwAR1bOCjU3ApUewRbY6VLUh3akjeXBla5yMe3ImCAp-ztIOuxFF-NcZtU3k8

#HappyNewYear from me and this itty bitty arboreal #salamander!

When full-grown, this lil' tyke will be 6 to 7 inches long with powerful jaws. Square toes make them GREAT climbers, and they like to get into trees to hunt. Fierce!

(Ruler = inches)

#CAnative #salamanders #herps #winter #Napa #California #NaturalHistory #HappyNewYear2023

Rare image of me emerging from the holiday chaos:

#salamander #CAnative #herps #Napa #chaparral #OakWoodland

A look at post-fire regrowth in a #Chaparral plant community: this place burned in both 2017 AND 2020.

#CAnative plants like bay laurel and greasewood are sprouting new shoots from root burls. Non-native grasses - mostly wild oats - have increased in stand density and size.

Even after two fires, there's a LOT of standing fuel, and grasses would increase fire intensity, if another one comes through soon.