Wednesday September 7Our gears quickly shifted from road tripping to wedding prep as we got to harvesting early early on Wednesday at our friends' garden for their wedding the upcoming weekend. We met & lived with the couple, Grayson and Elysse, while on Kaua'i in...
Sunday September 4 We slept in at our campsite outside Torrey, UT until after 8a, then I climbed behind the wheel and took us north and west across the rest of Utah. The drive was beautiful as it wound through the western Utah forest and the...
Friday September 1st We left Taos by 10a friday for an epic two week road trip, destined for the California Redwoods for a wedding. A couple we lived with on Kauai at Olana Farm, Grayson and Elysse, had invited us to their wedding to help run...
Sunday August 14 We wanted to get away for a quick night and decided one Sunday to scope out some of the free campsites just minutes away in ski valley canyon. Starting at the bottom, we pulled into every turnout we could tell was empty, and...
In between harvests, gardening, cooking, and our regular freelance jobs, we've still found time each week to get out and explore more Taos entertainment. We've found free music often, sometimes right across the street from our property in the form of Seco Live, but most...
The harvest keeps on rolling as tree after tree prepares to drop gallons of fruit. As soon as we finished with the first two plum trees and the cherry tree, we were onto the first of the apple trees overhanging our communal kitchen. Aaron got...
We've been loving all that we have to cook with here at Peaceful Earth Gardens. The land is bountiful and harvest season is going strong! We have oodles of chard, kale, garlic, onions, with cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli soon behind. [gallery columns="2" link="none" size="full" ids="3972,3971"] Not only are...
Thursday July 28: Bull of the Woods We tackled our first New Mexico summit with the 6.2 mile hike to the top of Bull of the Woods, a peak overlooking the Taos Ski Valley at 11,600 feet. We were joined by our fellow work-trader Kali and...
July & August We returned to Peaceful Earth Gardens and the SnowMansion ready to jump back into summer gardening. The plants we had started the months prior were showing great promise, and the fruit trees and bushes on the property were already bearing harvestable quantities! [gallery columns="1"...
Wednesday July 6We had been looking for a trailer for several months across several states, wanting to clear out our storage unit in Denver. The rent on the unit was month to month, and had been increased twice already in the past 6 months. We...