• Local Bite Mini Challenge-Use It Up!
    Local Bite

    Local Bite Mini Challenge ::: Week Eleven ::: Use It Up!

    Welcome to our Eleventh Local Bite Mini Challenge! How did last weeks challenge go?  Did you enjoy a tasty, local beverage?  I sure hope so! Alright, onto this weeks challenge!  Your challenge this week is to use all of an item in your cooking.  For example, if you’re planning to cook chicken this week, plan on using the whole chicken…so if…

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    Crunchy Confessions – Embracing the Perfectly Imperfect

    I think I have a picture in my head of what one must look like in order to consider themselves a crunchy urban farmer. For example: This person DIYs everything under the sun and does so with a calm smile on their face.  They don’t mind being different and swimming against the (main) stream of society in order to produce…

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    Comida de Campos

    Last weekend we attended a fundraiser for Farm to Table NM as an extension of our Local Bite Challenge as well as in an attempt to get out of the house on a Saturday evening, make some new contacts and maybe even have a little fun! The fundraiser was held at Comida de Campos, a family farm north of Santa…

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    Fun with Words

    I’ve been meaning to do this for a while and so I figured, what better time to create a fun word cloud about our little urban farm than when I’m smack dab in the middle of a 30 day blogging challenge and in need of something to post? So much fun, right?! xoxo, M

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    Local Perspective – The Urban Ecolife

    Up until today’s Local Perspective, our Guests have written about their experiences eating locally where they live.  For today’s post, however, I am very pleased to introduce you to Emily from The Urban Ecolife who is going mix it up a little and talk about her experiences eating locally while traveling! Yes, Emily has been traveling Central & South America…

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    Local Bite Mini Challenge ::: Week Ten ::: Swap One Beverage

    Welcome to our tenth Local Bite Mini Challenge! Can you believe we’ve been at this for 2 1/2 months?  Amazing, right?! Up until now we’ve focused mostly on food items, but there’s no way I could leave out one of my favorite things ever: Beverages!! So, your challenge this week is to swap out one beverage that you drink often or…