Happy Monday, everyone! Well, as I mentioned yesterday, the cold is toying with us! We were forecasted to hit freezing temps last weekend, but alas, nothing happened. I’m guessing this will be our last large harvest before bringing in all the green tomatoes in the next week or so and…
Happy Monday, everyone! I promise we harvested more than a couple of peppers, a melon and a few tomatoes! Happy Hot Peppers Our Mystery Melon! Tomato Bounty:(top row) Italian Heirloom, Sweet Small Cherry, Bi-Color Cherry, Orange Flesh Purple Smudge, Cherokee Purple(bottom row) Yellow Taxi, Black From Tula, Roma Unfortunately,…
Happy Monday everyone! According to the Farmer’s Almanac, we are in for a cold, wet winter! I’ll take the snow, but am hopeful the cold part is a normal cold and not a frigid one! We are planning two hoop houses in the backyard this year in which to over winter…
Happy Monday everyone! The past week has brought us all kinds of weather…clear and cold, cloudy and rainy, clear and warm…short sleeve days followed by two layers of long sleeves and then short sleeves again. Welcome to fall in Santa Fe! The garden and chickens don’t like it very much,…
Happy Monday everyone! Amazingly, in this time of bountiful harvests, I haven’t actually been harvesting very often! Not because there wasn’t anything to harvest, but because other life-happenings have been getting in the way. Nothing to worry about though, everything’s fine…just very busy these days (is this becoming a theme/habit?).…
Happy Monday everyone! August is rushing by in a bit of a blur. Have you ever heard the saying that goes something like, “life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”? Yeah…that’s the kind of the month I’ve had so far and there seems to be no end…
Happy Monday everyone! I missed you all last week since we went out of town for a bit of a vacation! We’re back now though, and so happy to be home and able to harvest all of our veggies while they’re at their peak! That means it’s catch up time…here…
Happy Monday, everyone!As the veggies are really starting to roll in, I keep finding myself thinking about how amazing it is to actually be able to grow our own food! Despite the sunburns and torn up hands, the long waiting periods and ridiculous weeds, every single harvest is a gift.…