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NM Native Pollinator Pocket Guides

May 17, 2019 Leave a Comment

sunstone dill ladybeetles

My favorite entomologist, Dr. Tess Grasswitz, has published new and FREE guides to beneficials in New Mexico. They are available for download from NMSU’s website and have great photos and descriptions. Go to the above link and scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link for either IPM for Home Gardeners or the […]

Filed Under: Gardening, Permaculture Tagged With: beneficial insects, New Mexico Pollinators, NMSU, Tess Grasswitz

I Wanna Go To Farm Camp!

May 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

How cool is it that such a thing as “farm camp” exists? No endless weeks of daycare, uniforms, and kumbaya for the modern set. Now young’uns can learn about farm animals, growing food, and all sorts of things that were, let’s be honest, probably chores way back in the day. I can imagine my 98-year […]

Filed Under: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Permaculture, School Garden, South Valley - Albuquerque, Urban Homestead, Workshops Tagged With: Erda Gardens, Farm Camp

Building an Earthen (Cob) Oven

May 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

Cob Oven

As resident bread baker, I’ve wanted to build a cob oven for years. I finally got started in early 2010. Then I got a bad concussion that injured my neck, and I had to put the project on hold for a year. Now, at last, I’m back to playing in the mud. It is so […]

Filed Under: Permaculture, Urban Homestead Tagged With: bread oven, cob, cob oven, earthen oven, fire bricks, horno

Last Workshops at Sunstone for the Year this Week!

May 17, 2019 Leave a Comment

Our workshop series is rapidly coming to a close for the year. It’s been a fun season meeting so many people! Here are details for the last workshops I will be teaching in 2010. This Wednesday, October 13, I will be teaching a FREE workshop on Gardening and Eating through a New Mexico Winter at the Agricultural Collaborative monthly meeting […]

Filed Under: Albuquerque, Gardening, Permaculture, Workshops

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