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After the Rain – A Walking Meditation

After the Rain – A Walking Meditation

My new favorite thing appears to be walking through (and taking copious photos of) the garden after a nice, soaking rain :-)  The quiet rustling and dripping of the leaves, flowers and fruits reminds me to slow down and take it all in.  No matter what's happening around me (or what chores may need to be done), I can find…
We Made it onto the Front Page!

We Made it onto the Front Page!

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 the paper...but this one did and it even included a…
Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow, Harvest, Eat

The last two weeks have brought us both sunshine and flooding (or flooding concerns, depending on where you are in relation to burn scars from all of our fires this summer).  There has been hail, very intense lightening storms, tornado like conditions and crazy wind whipping around central and northern New Mexico. Source Luckily, for us, our little pocket of…
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…
Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour – Preview

Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour – Preview

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, but they are in Coralles so they weren't included in…