Farmers’ markets are a great place to find new ingredients. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. OVER THE PAST YEAR, many of us have found ways to get closer to our food, including at the excellent…
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No matter what you’re planting, Roswell Seed Company has you covered. Photograph courtesy of Roswell Seed Company. WHETHER WITH POTS OF MAGENTA geraniums or 100-pound bags of alfalfa seed, the Roswell…
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THE MORNING IS QUIET as my husband and I make the drive down NM 14 from Santa Fe to San Marcos Cafe & Feed Store for breakfast. The muted gray hue of the early-spring sky accentuates the gold tones…
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Above: Picnic NM packs its platters with local ingredients. Photograph courtesy of Lauren Stutzman. If you want to wow the gang at your next picnic, skip the packaged potato salad. Instead, turn to…
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Above: The De Smet family an a happy cow. Photographs by Ungelbah Dávila Shivers. If you’ve ever wanted to taste milk like it was when your grandparents were children, now you can. De Smet Dairy…
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Above: Questa abuts the wildlands of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. Photographs by Minesh Bacrania. THE VILLAGE OF QUESTA perches where the Sangre de Cristo peaks and ponderosa pine…
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Above: Tom Brewer. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. ON A SMALL FARM in the town of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, a wet year has led to an early emergence of one of New Mexico’s newest crops. Everywhere…
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Above: Shawna Runyan with FARMesilla's cornucopia. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. The arid lands that stretch across the southern part of our state don’t necessarily evoke visions of agricultural…
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Above: The bounty of the garlic harvest. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. IN THE LATE 1970S, I was lent an apartment on Canyon Road in Santa Fe for a month, where I wrote the first draft of a…
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THE SLOPE OF LAND WAS ANONYMOUS, the kind of arid topography easily overlooked in most towns. Maybe a tumbleweed, or any weed for that matter, posted up along the silty stretch of alluvium, but not…
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