Garlic Scape Pesto

Garlic Scape Pesto

It's garlic scape season and what better way to celebrate than to make a bit of Garlic Scape Pesto? What the heck is a garlic scape? It's the curly stemmed flower of hard neck garlic that appears a few weeks before harvest time. The stem is cut off of the plant in order to allow it to focus its energy…
June 20, 2019
How to Preserve Strawberries

How to Preserve Strawberries

The abundance of spring often shows it first blaze of glory in the form of perfectly ripe, richly red, amazingly sweet, little strawberry gems. We wait rather impatiently for them as they shift from green to white to red and then eat as many as we can straight off the plant and still warm from the sun. Once we've had…
June 10, 2019
Cota Tea

Cota Tea

Cota Tea (also known as Indian tea, Hopi Tea, Navajo Tea, Zuni Tea, and Greenthread) has been a favorite in our house for years. First discovered at our local farmers' market, we were thrilled to find it growing wild on the property we currently care-take and have thoroughly enjoyed its abundant nature, gorgeous bright yellow flowers, and delicious offerings. Cota Tea…
June 5, 2019
The Abundance of Spring

The Abundance of Spring

After years of drought and worry about water, last year was a doozy. All across northern New Mexico farmers were sharing stories of dry ditches and dying crops and caring for every drop they got, whenever they could get it. Elders talked about droughts when they were kids and how it put their families off of farming for good. Rivers…
May 13, 2019

Shown, Unshown – The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

Hello, Friend! How are you? Are you well? Is the season treating you wonderfully? Growing you, learning you, calling you home to yourself? It's been a bit since I've been able to pop in here and so I'd like to share a bit about why I've been MIA with a good ol' Shown, Unshown catch up post :-) Shown Spring…
April 11, 2019
Vegetable seeds, hopes, & dreams

Vegetable seeds, hopes, & dreams

With the snows of January continually enveloping us and the hope of Spring right around the bend (but not before several twists and turns, I'm sure) how better to spend a bit of time than by going through a few hundred seed packets and daydreaming about planting season? 2018, with all of its transition and learning, didn't allow for a…
January 21, 2019