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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…
September 16, 2013

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…
September 14, 2013
Grow, Harvest, Eat

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…
September 9, 2013
Grow, Harvest, Eat

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…
August 26, 2013
Grow, Harvest, Eat

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…
August 12, 2013
Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour – Our Space

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…
July 29, 2013
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