Walking around the garden last night, I was reminded of how far we’ve come in just a few short years. From a barren, rock filled, super hot-trash-and-glass-and-juniper-filled 1/8 acre to a living, breathing, mini oasis…sometimes it’s easy to forget how much blood, sweat and tears have gone into our little plot. Walking around the garden last night, though, I…
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After years of dragging the hose back and forth across the yard… After countless hours spent wondering how the heck the chickens could possibly get their water so.darn.dirty day after day… After pining away after simpler solution and fancy fountains… We’ve finally gone and done it! Yep, we purchased a chicken fountain and installed that bad boy last weekend. The…
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Please join me in welcoming Colleen from Five Little Homesteaders as my next Local Perspective! Colleen, a mama to three (soon to be four) and a homesteader after my own heart, is DIYing everything in sight and continually surprising me with her energy and enthusiasm for all things homestead related. I have her dishwasher tabs and sourdough English muffins on…
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Welcome to our Eleventh Local Bite Mini Challenge! How did last weeks challenge go? Did you enjoy a tasty, local beverage? I sure hope so! Alright, onto this weeks challenge! Your challenge this week is to use all of an item in your cooking. For example, if you’re planning to cook chicken this week, plan on using the whole chicken…so if…
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I think I have a picture in my head of what one must look like in order to consider themselves a crunchy urban farmer. For example: This person DIYs everything under the sun and does so with a calm smile on their face. They don’t mind being different and swimming against the (main) stream of society in order to produce…
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Last weekend we attended a fundraiser for Farm to Table NM as an extension of our Local Bite Challenge as well as in an attempt to get out of the house on a Saturday evening, make some new contacts and maybe even have a little fun! The fundraiser was held at Comida de Campos, a family farm north of Santa…
