An Apprentice in the Acequia
Above: Writer Lander Burr with his wife,Tracy, and children in front of their barn. MY CORN WAS DYING. Maybe. Actually, I had no idea. Before 2016, I had never grown anything outside of a pot, let…
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Tag: Culture
A Small New Mexican Town Is Still Thriving
Above: Jamie Tate inspects a grafted apple tree at her Isle of Sky Nursery. WHEN IT RAINS IN WHITE OAKS, the sky glows with color and light and seems almost to flutter in the wind, like a crazy quilt…
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Native Innovators
Rose Simpson As emerging artists go, Rose B. Simpson has been coming on really strong really fast: Five years ago she was a college art student, playing in a band called Chocolate Helicopter. Now…
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Listening to the Land
IN THE MIDDLE OF A PIÑON PINE CLUSTER in the southwest New Mexico high country, Apache wilderness guide Joe Saenz was explaining traditional sources of Vitamin C in a voice so soft that I, a…
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