Last Natural Growing Southern California Sage Field

William "Billy" Brady (c.1940s-2026) (www.buffalosage.ca Buffalo Smudge project), a North American Métis tribal member and expert on California Sage and indigenous plants, is pictured during an interview with his foreman during a multimedia documentary video Gary Ballard was producing about white California sage in Southern California, northwestern Baja California, Mexico.

The undisclosed secret location of this giant California White Sage field pictured is one of the last remaining wild natural-growing sage fields in Southern California, Billy says....

NATURAL CALIFORNIA WHITE SAGE FIELD:
Over 500 acres!

Billy Brady estimated when he was born in the 1940s, this giant sage field encompassed about 15-SQUARE-MILES of natural pristine sage fields as pictured with this extreme indigenous plant activity carpeting the area -- it seemed to go on forever.

When this huge natural-growing sage field was photographed above in 2006 -- Billy estimated it to be about 500 acres remaining -- it is full of this extreme indigenous California plant activity. There is probably little of it left in 2026 (the last update of this page), as there was major landscape development activity going on when these photographs were taken in 2006.

BUFFALO SAGE: what is buffalo sage? Facts, professional pictures and factual information about Native American history of North American indigenous buffalo sage, aka WHITE SAGE, California Sage, Salvia apiana, as it pertains to.... William "Billy" Brady, an expert on California indigenous plants and herbs, including farming, gardening, harvesting and preparing California sage for sale, bulk wholesale commercial resale and retail sales of buffalosage. Native American First Nation expert Billy Brady, North American Métis.

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NATURAL NATIVE CALIFORNIA BIOSPHERE:

This massive wild sage growing area checks all the boxes of natural elements to provide rare and ideal growing conditions -- a perfect biosphere for growing whitesage Salvia apiana:

• DECOMPOSING GRANITE mountain provides essential minerals -- silica, calcium, feldspar -- and texture in the soil
• ALLUVIAL SLOPE at ideal angle for drainage and soil activity
• SOUTH FACING SUN
• WATER RIVERSIDIAN SAGE ECOSYSTEM provides ideal temperature and humidity
• POLLINATORS bees, moths...
  
  

Photographer's note:

This sage field reminded me of when a person witnesses something great that is ending; like seeing the last great tuna school, or last great herd of wild buffalo, and sadly realizing it will not exist in a few years.

-G. BALLARD