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Curly Leaf Virus

Curly Leaf Virus

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 bit and allow the tomatoes to recover.  No such luck.…
August 1, 2013
We Made it onto the Front Page!

We Made it onto the Front Page!

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 paper...but this one did and it even included a…
July 30, 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
Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour – Our Space

Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour – Our Space

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 from our visitors was amazing!  People were excited and inspired…
July 29, 2013
Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour – Preview

Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour – Preview

Saturday, as a build up to the Homegrown NM Kitchen Garden and Coop Tour, all of the homeowners and volunteers got to go on a Preview Tour of all of the homes being featured within the city of Santa Fe (there are a few farms on the tour as well, but they are in Coralles so they weren't included in…
July 28, 2013
Tomato Pruning

Tomato Pruning

It seems as though everyone has a different opinion about whether or not you should prune your tomato plants by removing suckers and certain branches. There's productivity, space and the overall health of your tomatoes to consider when thinking about the pruning process and really, I'm not sure there is a perfect answer, it's just an individual decision. I like to thin…
July 19, 2013