receipts

If you live near my farm here in San Diego, you know exactly when November arrives. It is not the temperature drop, which is barely noticeable, but the perfume.

The first time I walked past a blooming Feijoa bush in full flower, I thought someone was baking sugar cookies in the middle of my orchard.

The autumn air here in San Diego gets a specific, heavy sweetness around late October that signals one thing to me: the Pineapple Guava harvest is peaking.

If you walk through my orchard in the rolling hills just east of San Diego anytime between October and December, your nose will hit the aroma before your

Standing in the middle of my orchard in San Diego during late October, the air gets heavy with a specific, intoxicating perfume that smells like a collision

If you have ever walked through a San Diego garden in late autumn or early winter, you might catch a scent that stops you in your tracks.

Walking through my orchard here in San Diego during late autumn is a sensory experience unlike any other, specifically when the cool Pacific breeze mixes

If you live anywhere within the coastal influence of San Diego County, from the foggy mornings of Oceanside down to the sunny mesas of Chula Vista, you

If you have ever walked through a San Diego orchard in late October, you know exactly when the feijoas are ready without even looking at the ground.

There is a specific moment in late autumn here in San Diego, usually around mid-November, when the air shifts from dry Santa Ana heat to a crisp coastal cool.