blessed with rains

life at the Spotty Dog Farm

our awesome geranium with three flowers going at once!

irrigation with harvested rain

Y-valve off our 275 gal. toteirrigating the three sisters garden yesterday evening:

spotty sign

our sign as of this morning:did pretty well today

rainwater harvesting

we made rocket pops. two flavors, pom-lime on the outside and orange-mango on the inside.

re-directed rain water

Spotty Dog Farm

4-way


3 gpm

our first farmer's market!

irises we cut for market:

a full day.

this was all today (the "day off") after we went to the DMV twice, got a new SS card and finally new drivers lincences .. also Becke got a new cell phone for the first time in like five years.

living-room/ green-house is emptying out as we plant more and more seedlings..

tomatoes planted, onions and basil.

greenhouse emptied out.. down to just the wide short table. then we can use the taller eight foot one for vending at market next week.

planning on cutting irises to sell at market also. we have nice white and purple ones. sage and mint are also possible first harvests. radishes are in a slow but close second.

all gardens built, maize planted, irrigation evolving

went to the alpaca ranch two times in the last two days to amend the three sister's garden area.

many hands make light work.

this tiller did weeks of work in a day( four hours last night and two or three hours this morning.)

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: