Wild Seeing: Wildlife’s backyard harvest

There can be no purpose more inspiring than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.” — E.O Wilson In late October, a diligent community harvests root vegetables from summer gardens. The season’s last farmers market is right around the corner. Above our valley floor, bright snow snakes along high peaks and mountain ridges. Not that unusual for this time of year. Although I have lived in Midway for more than a couple decades, growing and harvesting tomatoes in our long summer seasons is especially gratifying. As I pluck the last ripe tomato on an orphaned vine, my thoughts drift to autumns past and present. Living for years in a humble miners house on lower Woodside Avenue at 7,000 feet, I planted a vegetable garden each spring following winter’s snow melt. Our home rested a block below the base lifts at Park City Resort on the shady side of the street.

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