This Biologist Buzzes for Bees

Olivia Carril has a honey of a gig. The Santa Fe Girls’ School science teacher and coauthor of The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America’s Bees (Princeton University Press) travels the state…

Hummingbird Plants of the Southwest

Marcy Scott, co-owner of Robledo Vista Nursery with her husband, Jimmy Zabriskie , in Las Cruces, has been a passionate birder for almost 40 years. So it’s not surprising that her two pursuits came…

Five Ways to Find Wildflowers

YOU NEVER QUITE KNOW what you might learn—or encounter—on a guided hike with a trained professional. Randy Roch, a ranger at the Río Grande del Norte National Monument, recalls one such spring trek…

Find the Wildflowers in Their Life Zones

THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO allow hikers to experience five of New Mexico’s life zones, from foothills to alpine tundra. Each environment has characteristic plant communities that have…

Where the Wildflowers Grow

UNDER THE YELLOW-GREEN JUNIPERS and blue-green piñons, a flush of wildflower color has arrived in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe. In mid-May, Tesuque Creek cascades down…

Five Things to Do This Weekend

1 Feel better. The Spirit Coalescent , an Indigenous art project, combines music, art, dance, and poetry at the Farmington Civic Center on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The Delbert Anderson Trio…

The Auntie Way

ENCHANTING IN A RUG-PRINT DRESS and Marco Arviso statement earrings, Nasheen Sleuth adiates warmth. When we meet, I immediately feel a pull of kinship to the Albuquerque actress and social media…

Soak Up Some Hot Springs History

THE OPENING OF A ROADSIDE HOT SPRINGS might not seem like an occasion for tears. But when the mineral baths on NM 65 outside Las Vegas, New Mexico, reopened last fall after 18 months of Covid-related…

A Cut Above

THE RICH AND FERTILE GALISTEO BASIN, 14 miles south of Santa Fe, makes for beautiful vistas and an ideal setting for former Chicago “city slicker”/art dealer Tim Willms to set up his Talus Wind Ranch…

Red Chile Scalloped Potatoes