In the Garden

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So much hope!

I was very worried after the little snow storm we got on April Fools Day, but hope remains :-) Now, there are still many nights between now and our guaranteed last frost date, but for now the bees are buzzing, the butterflies are fluttering, and the fruit trees are holding on. Maybe...just maybe...we'll have a good fruit year this year.…
April 5, 2016
Greens & Things

Greens & Things

As you may know about me by now, I always have such great intentions about growing a magnificent fall garden that will (naturally) evolve into a productive winter garden which will set us up for an incredibly bountiful spring... And then I become exhausted by summer's hectic schedule and distracted by fall's fall and enveloped by winter's hibernation... And then…
April 4, 2016

Let the planting season officially begin!

We didn't know for sure when they might open up the flood gates...we were told sometime between "Holy weekend" and April 1st...and so yesterday afternoon, with the dogs barking anxiously and a strange truck stopped down by one end of our property line, we were happy to realize that it was the Mayordomo checking the line as all the debris…
March 29, 2016

Happy Spring!

With a very busy weekend almost complete... Full of: Cultivating the garlic and up-potting tomatoes... Moving our compost pile and spending quality time with the ducks... Visiting a day-old calf and building a "living tent" for Ember (stay tuned)... Enjoying the sunshine and dirty, sweaty, down-in-the-dirt work... Sowing peas and beans and greens... & Feeling so very grateful for our…
March 20, 2016

2016 Acequia Clean Up

Next Saturday is technically Acequia Clean Up Day,  but with help at hand today (brother and daughter), we decided to clean out our portion of the acequia this weekend rather than waiting. There were leaves to be raked and moved to the garden and mole hill remnants to be shoveled out... There was trash to collect and glass to carefully pick…
March 13, 2016
Early Apricot Blossoms

Early Apricot Blossoms

With two full months to go before our guaranteed last frost date, I've found myself incredibly torn by the pure beauty of these apricot blossoms (tickling my already antsy Spring Fever) and the acknowledgement that, unless we have a phenomenally warm spring with no frosts or freezes, these gorgeous flowers this early in March means we probably won't get an Apricot harvest…
March 7, 2016