Life on the Farm

Cisterns 

One of our longest beds at forty five feet.

A planting of mustards with calendula at the ends for pest control

A decent harvest of yellow and red potatoes 

We planted mizuna and bunching onions in the bed where the potatoes were. 

Small 425 gallon water tank with our A-frame greenhouse under shade cloth. 

Solar Panel used to charge a battery to power the farms irrigation pump. 

Popcorn with grapes and marigolds.

Arm yourself for the revolution!

Making hot sauce with some freshly harvested red cayenne peppers.

More Canning and More Coldframes

 Did four more quarts of some nice yellow and red organic tomatoes. (all free by the way)

Canned Tomato Sauce

Canning Tomatoes

25 pounds of fruit makes roughly 18 pints. (3 - 3 1/2 lbs. per Qt.)

Know Your Farmers, Know Your Food

canning salsa

canning pot:

busy, busy bees.

just an expression...no hives yet (thank god, couldn't even imagine that on top of everything else we've decided to do this season) picked up our friend at the train station in Lamy last week and got some good pics:

Election day off from work

kefir operation:


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kefir "grains"

busy preserving and whathaveyou

basket of ripe romas i think its the third full one

tomato canning

ended up with two and a half gallons of canned roma tomatoes (ten quarts)

harvest and snow

very local dinner last night...except the multi-grain pasta.. but everything was from the garden except onion and garlic, from the farmer's market.

busy busy bees

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aphids! they have dominated a few corn plants, but nothing we can't use to our advantage for next year's crop. plus we have dried a bunch of our sweet corn

5 Gal. of lemon pickles, a dehydrator and firewood

chainsaw maintance

pickle blog #3. ...plus FINALLY a new ceiling fan!

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SAT: dill pickles; about nine quarts altogether ..two or three with some of our sliced jalapenos.

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SUN: fan and moving around all the drying herbs...including basil, dill, and the squash slices. Salted they should be a good snack, like a chip but healthier.

needing to be harvested and dried: sage, oregano , more basil, chives (although most of these are in containers.)

tomorrow: hop harvest, drying somewhere, nae anywhere.

coming soon...summer squash bread for the freezer! also roasted chiles and probably more corn, jalapenos, tomatillos and possibly a watermelon or two. complete with hollow sound and yellow spot. just a few more harvests to try 'n' keep up with. this tuesday off to the farmers market to get toes and backs/ necks from tom.

day trip to o'keefe country, trip to the market, and a lesson in home-canning

At the farmer's market we got a bunch of cucumbers for four dollars and some of Tom's good good garlic. Also got some fresh dill. We really wanted to prepare to preserve before it's too late. Seeing as we already have watermelons, tomatillos, peppers, now the cucumbers are growing little cukes too. Corn has it's female flowers also now!!!