garden: Take a Botanical Night Walk!
- 07/08/09 06:23 AM
The Albuquerque Botanical Gardens has scheduled a "Night Walk" for July 14, 2009. You're invited to come on out and explore the Gardens under moonlight as you take a guided tour in search of night-blooming plants, nocturnal animals and night pollinators. This guided event has only limited space, so call ahead to make your reservation: (505)848-7180. Can't make the Night Walk? Head over to the Botanical Gardens any time-- you'll be glad you did!
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garden: Eating from the community garden
- 06/29/09 07:00 AM
It's pretty much a no-brainer that eating local and organic food is best for one's physical health.
It's also a no-brainer that being involved with congenial friends in a tight-knit community is healthiest for one's emotional health.
Enter the "Community Garden." Not all of us live out in the country with abundant land for a huge vegetable garden, nor are we all equipped with the knowledge of organic farming methods, or the time and inclination to spend loads of time alone with just nature for company. The community garden enables anyone to get together, swap info, chat and visit … (2 comments)
garden: A great parenting example...
- 06/05/09 05:03 AM
Each day lately, I enjoy watching a great example of self-sacrificing parenthood--- in my garden!
A couple of weeks ago, I discovered a pair of little birds who got very agitated whenever I headed over to my beans and pumpkin patch. One or the other of them would fly at me, land nearby and twitter away at me, then run off and start pretending to be a poor, broken-winged bird. I'd never seen this before, but had read of it, and realized that some birds do this to try to lure dangerous predators away from their nests.
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garden: My luv is like a ...multi-colored... rose....
- 06/04/09 09:41 AM
With all due respect to Robert Burns, a "red, red rose" has always seemed, well, ordinary, to me in comparison with some of the other options that are out there. And while a single, long-stemmed rose, or even a fragrant bouquet is all well and good, there's a limit to their staying power.
Who was it that pointed out the difference between giving a man a fish and teaching him to fish? Well, there's a similar difference between giving a rose (a red, red rose or any other kind) and giving ongoing roses...
My love, (Brian, my … (2 comments)
garden: Waterfowl in my desert NM backyard!
- 06/03/09 07:18 AM
Probably sounds ridiculous to those not really familiar with the Albuquerque, NM area, but our New Mexico desert is actually home to loads of water birds!
More particularly, my backyard right here in Bosque Farms, New Mexico, hosts loads of waterfowl on a regular basis!
The key, of course, is water, and we've definitely got that here along the Rio Grande Valley.
We regularly ditch-irrigate our pastures, grow a huge organic garden, and play host to some gorgeous, and even threatened, species of waterfowl! The other day, after irrigating our pastures, I noticed some long-legged water birds that I had … (2 comments)
garden: I'm so lucky... to live here!
- 05/12/09 02:26 PM
I'm so lucky to live where I live, here in Bosque Farms, NM! Take a look, and see what I mean! I've got 1. wonderful, "Land of Enchantment" sunsets and rainbows to look at right outside my front door
2. plenty of water to grow a huge, food-factory-size garden, despite living in a "desert" state
3. cranes, ducks, geese, and other waterfowl hanging out in my pastures and flying overhead along the Rio Grande
4. lush pastures for my little herd of horses (a necessity for a "horse … (9 comments)
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