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We have had a ton of weather in San Diego, this Winter. Cold, rain, hail, and wind. This is unusual for us. Our Winters are typically temperate, consisting of days typical for the region: mild, cloudless and sunny.   I embrace these fickle days, starting clear, bustled with wind, dazzled with clouds, glazed with rain.   It’s been many years since Southern California has had such a persistent Winter. We have had freezing temperatures and even snow at our Sage Winds East farm.   White sage is indigenous to Southern California and Baja California coastal valleys and deserts. Our continual...

  At Sage Winds Farm, East (pictured above) the Saliva apiana grows in it's native region. Our SWF East property, in the high desert facing east into what eventually dips down into the Imperial Valley. The Kumeyaay and Cocopah Indians were the area's earliest inhabitants, and the area is rich in Native American history, culture and archeological resources. Today Boulevard is the headquarters of the Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians. The Kumeyaay called white sage pellytaay. The Kumeyaay would burn these leaves in a sweat-house to help purify the body from toxins connected with illness.  In a sense, some of our illnesses are certainly physiological. You are exposed to someone with...

  Even after all these years of growing our own white sage, here on the desert coast of San Diego feels new.  Our few thousand plants on our original property near Jacumba Hot Springs in the high desert of San Diego County have different issues than then ones on our coastal property. To the east, we fend off gophers and rabbits and ground squirrels as they fight to eat the tender young shoots, rich with water. They often chew our water lines to refresh with the precious liquid. The ground out east is rocky. House-sized boulders dominate the landscape. The plants nest...

Welcome January Wolf Moon Years ago, hungry wolf packs bayed outside snowy, Indian villages during these long, frigid nights.  New Moon is the time to set your intentions, to put your seed in the ground, and to begin new projects. Out with the old; in with the new.  Here at Sage Winds we are using new tie dye colors for our hand-dyed hemp wraps for the first time since we started the farm! After 12 years, we feel the pull and movement of new direction.  Hand wrapping each smudge bundle is a meditation. We contemplate the colors of the hemp...

:::We are here:::January 2019:::New Year:::New Intentions::: New Year:New You! shouts to us from magazine titles, gym banners, salons, click-bait, and articles. Let's take a pause. Let's take a breath. Let's reset. We begin this January 2019 in the Last Quarter of the Cold Moon. Long nights and crystal clear skies are the perfect time for stillness, silence, and sleep.  Sleep, perchance to dream new dreams, hear new songs, divine new intentions. Stillness as your energy flows inward, in spite of the flush of new year parties.  Silence to hear the deep intention of your soul.  Your spirit whispers...who shall we...