Food & Drink

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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
Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow, Harvest, Eat

Happy Monday, everyone!The garden is officially starting to explode!  With so many (very) hot days, followed by a few days of light drizzles and a few heavy downpours (finally!), the garden is happy, beginning to produce and filling in very nicely! While harvests are still pretty sporadic and small, the diversity in the garden is starting to show itself on…
July 15, 2013
Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow, Harvest, Eat

Happy Monday, everyone!GrowThe garden is, with the exception of one single tomato plant, doing amazingly well despite the record breaking temps we had over the past week.  I anticipate many tomatoes and peppers in the coming weeks and cannot wait for our  tomatillos to begin forming their cute little lanterns!  In the meantime, I'm enjoying checking in on the echinacea,…
July 1, 2013
Zero Waste Juicing

Zero Waste Juicing

Juicing seems to be all the rage these days.  If I am honest, I can get behind drinking some delicious-and-oh-so-good-for-me juice from time to time...but I'm not quite sure it's all I could do to sustain myself for an extended period of time.  Actually, I'm positive I couldn't do it!  All juice, all the time?  No way!Anyhow, last weekend we…
June 26, 2013

Fancy Water

It seems that, recently, "vitamin water" has become all the rage.  Not the kind you buy in the store (with all of its sugar and artificial colors), but the kind you throw together at home using whatever you have on hand. We have done this for the past few years, usually with one or two additions (mint by itself, mint…
June 11, 2013
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!It's been a while since I have written a Harvest Monday post simply because there hasn't been much to report besides eggs, eggs and more eggs. Really though, honestly, I am incredibly grateful for all of our eggs!  The color, the taste, the ability to harvest them from our own chickens in our own backyard!  Yes, I really…
April 1, 2013