We returned for another ski season at the Snowmansion, just in time for Thanksgiving. We were fortunate enough to get a free-range organic turkey from a local farm up in Questa, NM - and though we requested the smallest one available, we still ended up...
We've been trying out some new health techniques for the last year as we root down in this land of all kinds of natural healing. After months and months, testing has turned to habit and we're hooked!QigongQi (pronounced "chee") is the energy flowing through all...
Saturday May 6 2023The last month has absolutely F L O W N by now that planting is well underway at the farm! We've got trays on trays of broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, cucumbers, spinach, arugula, and peppers.Directly in the ground, we planted 4 varieties of...
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...
Garlic Though most of the gardens are dormant, there is plenty to do around the property’s numerous greenhouses and Muna’s apothecary. We gathered about 5 gallons worth of dried garlic that was harvested from the previous seasons to process: The garlic was sorted to leave only...
I've been working on various ferments since our first weeks here. I made a bottle of Chili Peppa Water, Chili Garlic Paste, fermented Basil Habeñero Pesto, fermented fruit salad, and rice wine vinegar. Rice Wine Vinegar I bought a $3 mini bottle of sake from Walmart and...
Easily the best thing we’ve been gotten to experience so far at the farm: harvesting honey from the 4 bee hives kept on the farm. Wednesday late morning we donned the bee suits, sturdy shoes / boots & gloves late morning while the majority of the...
We've made it through a full week basically! The downtime was much appreciated yesterday and we were ready for our full morning today. We started with an hour long meeting with Jiva, Myrica (Jiva's partner), Kristin (fellow volunteer), Aaron, and myself. First up on all...
13 hours of travel allows plenty of time for reading. Here is my take on the book Jiva told us to read. "Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture" was one of the first books to consolidate and bring to the public public eye the idea...
We both just got our rapid COVID test results from Vault health and we're both NEGATIVE! WAHOOO! State of Hawaii requires a negative test 72 hrs prior to arrival in Hawaii in order to avoid the otherwise mandatory 14-day strict quarantine. State of Hawaii COVID Travel Home...