Believing that we could produce more, consume less and have a positive impact on our environment, all while living on 1/8 acre in the middle of the city, this quote became the mantra of our small family as we began our journey into a homesteading way of life. We spent 7…
Some day soon I will catch everyone up on what’s been happening in my life…in our lives…but for now, we’ll stick with the literal fruits of our labors. Sometimes, when life gets challenging, it’s best to just keep doing what you’re doing, release the things that aren’t working or that…
Oh September, how I love and hate you all at the same time!!! The gentle glide into fall is a time of year I look forward to every year. The cooler nights, the comfy clothes, the hot tea and hot toddies, pumpkins everywhere and Halloween right around the corner…Oh, I…
Keeping chickens over the past few years has been quite the adventure in both the actual keeping of chickens and in the human response to the fact that we keep chickens. Conversations are either based around confusion or excitement! I get questions all the time like; You can keep chickens…
Teeny, tiny flies…tons of them…in our chicken scratch. We’ve been keeping chickens for a few years now and I have never seen this before! I first saw them on Saturday when I went out to feed the Ladies. I opened up the Scratch Bin and noticed a few tiny flies,…
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. Silly Me didn’t think much of it since not every story a reporter comes up with actually makes it into…
Well, we did it! We survived the 2013 Homegrown NM Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour! 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,…