Harvest

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Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!I promise we harvested more than a couple of peppers, a melon and a few tomatoes!Happy Hot PeppersOur Mystery Melon!  Tomato Bounty:(top row) Italian Heirloom, Sweet Small Cherry, Bi-Color Cherry, Orange Flesh Purple Smudge, Cherokee Purple(bottom row) Yellow Taxi, Black From Tula, RomaUnfortunately, due to busy-ness, those are the only three photographs that were taken of this weeks…
October 1, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!According to the Farmer's Almanac, we are in for a cold, wet winter!  I'll take the snow, but am hopeful the cold part is a normal cold and not a frigid one! We are planning two hoop houses in the backyard this year in which to over winter a few crops.  In addition to plastic sheeting and water bottles…
September 24, 2012
Apple Season

Apple Season

Apple season is officially upon us and, I have to say, I am so incredibly excited about it!Since we've processed all 150 pounds of gifted apples, it's finally time to start harvesting the apples from our own tiny trees!Now, we put in our apple trees just a few years ago and this is the first year we've really seen them…
September 22, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!The past week has brought us all kinds of weather...clear and cold, cloudy and rainy, clear and warm...short sleeve days followed by two layers of long sleeves and then short sleeves again.  Welcome to fall in Santa Fe! The garden and chickens don't like it very much, but I'm used to it :-)The beans are almost completely dead,…
September 17, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!!!I didn't take many pictures this week (I was too busy taking pictures of our guests and the shenanigans that occurred with said guests ;-) ).  Luckily, the lack of pictures is not representative of what's actually coming in from the garden!While the tomato tally is lower this week than the past several, we are again harvesting Cherokee Purples and…
September 10, 2012
How Many Apples Does It Take…

How Many Apples Does It Take…

...to drive a woman crazy?Apparently the answer is 150 pounds because that's what we harvested last Friday evening and, at this point, I'm feeling a bit crazy about the process of processing 150 pounds of delicious (unforgiving) apples.Let's go back a bit and explain how we acquired so many apples...I have a friend named Madonna (yes, that's her given name…
September 4, 2012