2019
JULY - DECEMBER 2019
Main harvest was of green beans. But a quiet summer and fall: Katherine traveled, Robin and Jake irrigated, and then back to school!
JUNE 2019
It's such a relief to be living here full time! A lovely, cool, rainy June. Things are luxuriously green.
Non-human residents: Goats Syd and Happy, and new lambs Spot and Grigia
Asha delivering the repurposed polyiso insulation, to be used to build a walk-in cooler, funded through a LIFE grant by the New Mexico Farmers Market Association
Katherine laying out T-tape on lower terrace
Giving back: digging a post hole by the acequia, moving the fallow tarp
MAY 2019
On the first weekend, Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions and Albuquerque's Tech Leadership High School seniors came and spent the weekend.
In the campground: The CGE Commissary, source of great meals; setting up tents; cracking black walnuts from the farm's tree; digging a fire pit.
APRIL 2019
Katherine mowed the early mustards, and has been going out mid-week to flood-irrigate the upper and middle terraces, and hand-water the new trees, and the transplanted perennials. So far, the silage tarp hasn't blown into the cottonwoods--whew!! The new gate looks snappy.
MARCH 2019
Aaron came for three weeks, WWOOFer #1! Wonderful start to the year. We got the farm's enfrente cleaned, and the rest of the acequia. With Virginia, we tilled and put compost on and seeded the upper and middle terraces with a high diversity cover crop mix from EAS. We got a delivery of compost from Reunity Resources, our friends who collect from school cafeterias, including Katherine's El Camino Real Academy. Abbey and Katherine chose fruit trees, and Michael and Katherine planted them.
WINTER 2018 through FEBRUARY 2019
Katherine has been studying up on social media and business stuff, and listed the farm on WWOOF as well as establishing Villanueva Fields LLC.