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...
We've been super busy during our fist month back in Taos @ Peaceful Earth Gardens. The greenhouses are bursting with varieties of lettuce, spinach, kale, chard, mustard greens, broccoli, onions, shallots, cilantro, thyme, bok choy, and beets, all ready for daily harvest! Sure does make...
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...
We’re heading to the farmer’s market tomorrow and today’s tasks were all about harvesting! I had only a couple hours of harvest work on roselles, green onions and pak choy. Aaron was on tree duty: avocados, tangerines, lemons, limes, tangelos, tangerines, cara cara oranges, grapefruit,...
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...
Aaron here. I'm WWOOFing because I want to do something different. I live in one of the sunniest climates but as a bartender, I worked night hours, often in a basement - and I am ready to change that up. I like being outdoors, and I...
As early as autumn 2019, we began making plans to spend 2021 abroad. It's been a decade-long goal of mine to return to Europe to live for roughly 12-18 months for the ability to cheaply travel within the continent - Prague was at the top...