August & September 2024 We spent the latter half of the summer living and working with our two initial Food Church properties in New Mexico. Both locations will eventually be able to support full-time or 3-season residency for the owners and additional workers, but for now...
June 18 2024 After returning from Jordan Hot Springs thoroughly refreshed and re-energized, Aaron and I were sitting within the beautiful spiked canyon walls of the Middle Fork of the Gila River, at our summer-camp temporary home deep in the wilderness of western New Mexico. Finding...
Tuesday May 28 - Thursday June 20 2024Our beloved host from Kauai, Jiva, coincidentally retired to our favorite neighborhood of Western New Mexico: Gila Hot Springs. We were graciously allowed to camp out on his new 3-acre property for several weeks, helping out with planting,...
The 2023-24 ski season kicked off with a bang at Taos Ski Valley with some solid early snow. We were excited as ever to spend another 50+ days cruising groomers and chasing powder. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid...
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...
Our final month on the slopes flew by with another couple storms at the end of the March plus some pro competitions to provide slope side entertainment. We posted up at the base of the Kachina chair for the Freeride World Tour (Mar 23) and...
The holiday season came and went quickly with days of cooking, caring for chickens and generally staying busy between our three jobs: caretaking with our work-trade at SnowMansion / Peaceful Earth Gardens, freelancing new websites (Sarah) and CAD drawings (Aaron), and best of all: skiing...
We are overjoyed to be living 10 miles away from a world class ski resort, and have already been steadily using our mid-week season passes for Taos Ski Valley. The resort opened on Thanksgiving, and we skipped the first 4 days on our pass to...
Flash back to Nov 16 2020 - We left our apartment in the hands of sublettors, threw our valuables in a storage unit, and hopped a one-way flight to the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i for our first work-trade posting through WWOOF. The pandemic was raging,...