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November 24, 2005

Last Wildcrafting Trip of the Season

Here we are harvesting juniper early in the morning - this is extremely hot country, even in the late Fall, so the best time to pick is from 6am to noon or so.



Art photo and cover of this year's spring catalog - Erica harvesting early in the morning with the sun behind her.



Hauling the Juniper back to the truck



Coulter pines grow to enormous proportions and are armed and dangerous - look at the spikes on that sucker.



Laurel and Dara spreading out a tarp on a hillside - we harvest the juniper onto these tarps and then drag them down the hillside to load the juniper into the truck - see next picture too ...



Here's me, Dara and Laurel harvesting the Juniper onto the tarp



Making our way back to the truck at the end of the day



My star soapmaking assistant Lorenzo hauling a full load back to the truck.

The trees had tons of juniper berries this year because of the heavy rains.



Endless hills of golden, wild oats



Here I am with an armload of Juniper



Watching the sunset after a hard day of harvesting juniper.



Here's the Juniper Ridge crew at the end of the Day - from left me (Hall Newbegin), your favorite SF Farmers Market salesperson Dara Merin, shipping manager Laurel Frank and Erica Schuckman.

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