As I mentioned earlier this week, I do believe that our summer will quickly transition into fall this year. With cooler weather at our doorstep (or, at least, on its way), I’ve been thinking a lot about our fall and winter garden. Last year’s winter garden failed miserably. We literally…
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…
After all of the struggles and ideas and attempts at making our pallet beds work, I thought it might be nice to give you am update on their progress! Now, remember that we got a late start on planting out all three pallet beds, so they may be a little behind…
My new favorite thing appears to be walking through (and taking copious photos of) the garden after a nice, soaking rain 🙂 The quiet rustling and dripping of the leaves, flowers and fruits reminds me to slow down and take it all in. No matter what’s happening around me (or…
A couple of weeks ago we noticed that a few of our potted tomatoes were looking a little ragged around the edges. Upon checking the soil, I noticed it was quite wet, so I removed the drip irrigation from the pot in the hopes that it would dry up a…
A Reporter (Adele) from the Santa Fe New Mexican (our local paper) showed up to the Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour on Sunday and chatted me up for a bit. Silly Me didn’t think much of it since not every story a reporter comes up with actually makes it into…
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…
Well, we did it! We survived the 2013 Homegrown NM Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour! I may wake up tomorrow without a voice form talking for 5 1/2 hours straight about what we’ve done on our little plot, why, where and how, but we did it! The response we got…