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...
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,...
Friday May 24th - Monday May 27th 2024Aaron and I left the badlands of western New Mexico for the green mountains of the Gila Wilderness at the start of the famously busy Memorial Day holiday weekend. We arrived at the Cosmic Campground by late afternoon:...
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...
The winter was definitely a calmer season for farming. We harvested the last of a summer crop - turnips! We dug up only the biggest of the field and filled a wagon with some giant turnips! We got very experimental with cooking turnips: turnip fries,...
November 10 - 13 Thursday: Well, another whirlwind adventure! My parents arrived after dark on a Thursday evening so natural first thing was to get unpacked and tour the charmingly "Abominable" Snowmansion lodge/art gallery that we help caretake as part of our work trade here in Arroyo Seco. [gallery...
Aaron and I were both lucky enough to have our parents come out to visit this autumn. With my parents staying for a week to explore the last weeks of pleasant camping, hiking, and hot springs -- and Aaron's parents visiting for a quick weekend...
Wednesday October 5 - Monday October 10October kicked off quickly with a 5 day trip to Minnesota and Wisconsin to celebrate Aaron’s brother’s wedding. Josh and Katie were getting married and celebrating along the small Mississippi River towns between the Twin Cities and their new...
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...