Happy weekend, everyone!!! This weekend is the weekend! You know, the one where hundreds of people will walk through our property as part of the Homegrown NM Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour? Yeah…that weekend!So, today we will spend several hours previewing everyone else’s properties on the tour and tomorrow we will host everyone who purchased a ticket to check out…
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Humming-Bird by D.H. Lawrence I can imagine, in some otherworld Primeval-dumb, far back In that most awful stillness, that only gasped and hummed, Humming-birds raced down the avenues. Before anything had a soul, While life was a heave of matter, half inanimate, This little bit chipped off in brilliance And went whizzing through the slow, vast, succulent stems. I believe…
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Downsizing our Flock
After much consideration and many conversations, we decided to downsize our flock. What started out as 5 laying hens in a our first handmade coop just a few years ago grew to 20 and was most recently sitting at 19. While, in the grand scheme of things, 19 is really not that many hens, it had become too many for…
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Ever Growing Sponsor & Giveaway – Fed By Threads
I am very excited to bring you Ever Growing Sponsor Fed By Threads! Here’s a little about the mission of Fed By Threads in their own words: Fed By Threads set out to inspire change & get us back to the roots of what America stands for; generosity, community, feeding the hungry, and making real goods for our national economy. Let’s stop outsourcing jobs.…
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“Time in nature is not leisure time; it’s an essential investment in our children’s health (and also, by the way, in our own).” ~Richard Louv, Last child in the Woods MATERIALS: Wear weather appropriate clothing, bring a water bottle, and a small snack and any other tools that might help you explore. TIME FRAME: As long as is possible. PROCEDURE: Simply…
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I think there must’ve been something in the water last winter because there are a lot of babies being born these days! In addition to our own Little One joining us in October, two of our close friends and many of our acquaintances have either recently given birth or are getting ready to! Needless to say, new babies mean new…
