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. Â 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). Â There has been hail, very intense lightening storms, tornado like conditions and crazy wind whipping around central and northern…
Well, we did it! Â We survived the 2013 Homegrown NM Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour! Â 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…
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,…
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…
As many of you know, we have struggled greatly with growing potatoes. We’ve tried a couple of different containers, a couple of different soil and straw combinations, and a couple of different spots in the garden (full sun, patrial shade, etc.) and have yet to perfect the perfect growing conditions…