• Harvest

    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…

  • Harvest

    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…

  • Harvest

    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…

  • Grow

    Barnes Mountain Yellow Tomato

    Last summer, I was given a couple of packets of heirloom tomato seeds by a friend/co-worker.  I couldn’t think of a better gift!  One of those packets contained a few tiny Barnes Mountain Yellow Tomato seeds!  I had never before heard of such a thing, was super excited to try them out this spring and had no idea what to…

  • Harvest

    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…