In a lesser-known area of Sicily, local artisans, shepherds, cheesemakers and farmers are opening their doors to create a new way for travellers to experience their island.
Created 300 years ago, Jaipur's Jantar Mantar is an outdoor complex filled with gargantuan astronomy tools designed to be used by the naked eye – and they're still accurate.
plantitos and
plantitas growing super expensive plants often with weird-looking inedible green-and-white leaves. Spare time while in self-quarantine made me an accidental
farmtito. I had tossed overripe grocery store tomatoes to a snake plant
pasô and a plant sprouted, flowered, and fruited, yielding me at least one tomato every day for lunch. Happily growing in other pots are what I think is a turmeric plant and
monggo seedlings, one already flowering despite a rather aggressive
ampalaya vine that hooks on to anything. A durian seedling is already a foot high, although its future is not too bright in its flowerpot.