COMMUNITY EVENTS AT THE FARM
WEEDING PARTY AND DINNER IN THE FIELD
Guests from Ghana and local friends help weed and prepare community dinner. The Ghana folks were happy to help, it reminded them of home.
All prepared dinner with veggies gathered from the field, and we ate at sunset to watch the full moonrise.
COMMUNITY ONION PLANTING WEEKEND
Folks come and go on a spring March weekend.
Many hands help plant 10,000 onion bulbs.
Thanks Onion Angels!
THE FIELD TRIP
Cottonwood Valley Charter School kids (7th & 8th graders & 1st grade buddies) along with lots of volunteers and parents and teachers visit the farm to learn about organic farming and food growing.
Students harvested produce from the field, then prepared lunch for all at the outdoor kitchen. A plethora of produce to choose from in September! All 100 of us ate salad, stir fry and stone soup made from veggies grown on the farm.
Kids did pastel drawings of such things as kohlrabi, took a nature walk, told the Stone Soup fable, and all took home some garlic, sunflowers and peacock feathers. Two local artists visited during the event and completed plein air paintings in only 2 hours!
COMMUNITY HARVEST DINNER
IN THE FIELD: AUTUMN EQUINOX
Members of the community brought desserts, beverages and bread. Main courses were prepared from farm produce.
Before dinner was served, people meandered through the field, ooohing and ahhhing at starship summer squash, okra flowers, purple beans and pink eggplant.
The table was very long, the meal and camaraderie were very fine, and the sunset was spectacular! Truly an enchanted evening.
2010 NEW MEXICO ORGANIC FARMING CONFERENCE
Nolina’s Heavenly Organics was pleased to present a workshop on Farmer’s Markets which included everything from display to customers to produce to packaging to marketing to pricing. The audience asked lots of questions and had great suggestions! Our fav was to display cooking buddies together, for example tomatoes, garlic and basil.
Then, the farm was very surprised and ever so pleased to be presented with...
THE GOOD EARTH AWARD
Presented each year at the conference by the NM Organic Commodity Commission to a new farmer (we were 6 years old then and know there will always be lots to learn) for good farming practices (see the About page for a description of our all-organic-no-till-raised-bed-drip-system method) and good produce. (see our Crops page for a description of the specialty crops we grow.) Thanks to everyone who contributed and contributes to the success of the farm!!!
SOCORRO HOMESCHOOLERS FARM FIELD TRIP
Parents and students spend a morning at the farm learning about organic farming and how vegetables grow. Parents asked more questions than the kids!
They came with a paper bag and recipe for minestrone soup and harvested veggies.
That evening they would use the ingredients to prepare dinner for their family. A fun assignment.
OTHER VISITORS TO THE FARM
Angelina of La Placita Gardens in Albuquerque comes for tour and recipes to include in her cookbook.
View short video interview with Angelina of La Placita Gardens
Socorro customer brings her 86-year-old mom to visit!
USDA representative visits farm; USDA is interested in organic farming!
