Weekend at Bermies*
Forest ground cover growing wild and naturally in New Mexico’s Sandia Mountain Wilderness This weekend we dug our first berm and basin! And started on the second! The first berm and basin. We covered...
View ArticleOur 100% Natural Winter-Time Family Water Solution
The thing I like most about working hard out here in the Wastes is the beer I get to drink after I’m done. The thing I like least: dealing with the water cistern in winter. The spigot freezes every...
View ArticleIf It Were Easy…
…I wouldn’t bother. I also wouldn’t get so maddeningly frustrated. I feel like I should hug a farmer. Or kiss a gardener. Or shake hands with the guy in NYC who grows basil on his high rise balcony. I...
View ArticleOh Yes I Wish It Would Rain Down, Down On Me
This is how the garden bed is watered. Plus also, my face and camera in the reflection. The hole we dug with gentlemanly brawn and will of personal spirt has been filled (half way) with an amalgam of...
View ArticleGratitude
and so it rained. the bed got watered, though that wasn’t the point. it did not rain for me. it rained because it rained. because God or the Universe or Gaia or what name you give It decided in Its...
View ArticleMy So Called Row Cover
Mad Beets, Y’all! This Friday will mark the last installment of the excellent “Gardening in the Desert” class I’m taking over at Santa Fe Community College. Erin O’Neill is the super knowledgeable,...
View ArticleYou May Tell Yourself, This Is Not My Beautiful State
But it is. This is New Mexico. When I think about it, when you think about it, when most anyone thinks about it, they picture New Mexico as a dry desert–beautiful in its sparseness, yes, but “verdant”...
View ArticleAll These Things That I’ve Grown
Through the mysterious magic of the voodoo that is growing things, I somehow managed to make a weird, triangle-shaped seed turn into spinach that comes out of the ground. I stood back in satisfied...
View ArticleDo You Feel Like Swimming? (Yes, Right Now)
I did everything right. I did everything wrong. Brad Lancaster says to watch the flow of your land. See where the water moves. Build earthworks to catch the water. I did those things. I situated the...
View ArticleDon’t you forget about me (Don’t don’t don’t don’t)
This is the sign that reminds us not to turn on the water pump. See the little x over his sad little eye? In my version of the song, Simple Minds are singing from the point of view of the screen that...
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