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    The Mid-September Garden

    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 do love it all! However, the sad, declining garden and…

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    Cayenne Peppers – 6 Health Benefits & Recipes

    Cayenne is one of those foods that people either love or they hate.  If you can hack the punch of this awesome Capsicum, though, there are many health benefits of cayenne peppers that just might be worth a little heat on your tongue and in your belly. With so much cayenne growing on our two plants this year, we have…

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    Grow, Harvest, Eat

    Grow Despite the funny summer we’ve had, we are still seeing a few new items trying to get in their production before the nights get too cold… Luffa A baby Butternut Squash, trying to ripen before the cold weather descends. I’m not sure that the luffa or the butternuts will have enough time to ripen fully, but I am very…

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    Grow, Harvest, Eat

    Just when I thought that summer was on it’s way quickly into fall, we’ve had two steady weeks of heat.  Go figure, right?  The garden is in full production mode, though everything is later than it was last year, and even the year before that…I still haven’t even harvested any corn. I mentioned in my last Grow, Harvest, Eat post…

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    Grow, Harvest, Eat

    Grow I fear that the garden has reached its peak and it’s all downhill from here.  Why?  Well, for the past couple of nights, it’s been cold enough for me to sleep with long pants and a long sleeved shirt on. Yep, that’s my science 😉 Really, though, the days have been a bit cooler (high 70s to mid-80s) and…

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    Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour – Our Space

    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 from our visitors was amazing!  People were excited and inspired…