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Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow Despite the funny summer we've had, we are still seeing a few new items trying to get in their production before the nights get too cold... Luffa A baby Butternut Squash, trying to ripen before the cold weather descends. I'm not sure that the luffa or the butternuts will have enough time to ripen fully, but I am very…
September 9, 2013

Herbed Cream Cheese

How do you turn plain ol' cream cheese into a deliciously extravagant snack? Harvest, chop up, and stir some fresh herbs into your favorite cream cheese, then slather it on some crackers or freshly baked bread!  Our favorite herb combination is basil and thyme, but any herb or combination you love will work! Delicious doesn't have to be complicated! Hope…
September 6, 2013
Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow, Harvest, Eat

Just when I thought that summer was on it's way quickly into fall, we've had two steady weeks of heat.  Go figure, right?  The garden is in full production mode, though everything is later than it was last year, and even the year before that...I still haven't even harvested any corn. I mentioned in my last Grow, Harvest, Eat post…
August 26, 2013

How to Make Tomato Powder

It is officially the Time of Bounty again.  You've sown your seeds, cared for their sprouts, transplanted and top dressed the healthiest growers and are now harvesting a bounty of tomatoes and squash and corn and maybe even peppers from your garden several times a week if not every day. This wonderful process leaves you full of pride while feeding…
August 22, 2013
Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow I fear that the garden has reached its peak and it's all downhill from here.  Why?  Well, for the past couple of nights, it's been cold enough for me to sleep with long pants and a long sleeved shirt on. Yep, that's my science ;-) Really, though, the days have been a bit cooler (high 70s to mid-80s) and…
August 12, 2013
Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow, Harvest, Eat

The last two weeks have brought us both sunshine and flooding (or flooding concerns, depending on where you are in relation to burn scars from all of our fires this summer).  There has been hail, very intense lightening storms, tornado like conditions and crazy wind whipping around central and northern New Mexico. Source Luckily, for us, our little pocket of…
July 29, 2013