Home on the Range
Several breeds of cattle, horses, and sheep are on view at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Photograph courtesy of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. HEATHER REED AFFECTIONATELY…
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Tag: Ranches & Farms
Fresh Meat at Shepherd's Lamb
Clockwise from top left: Ground lamb, loin chops, rip chops, kebab meat, shank, frenched rack of lamb. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. THAT SMILING FACE AT THE SANTA FE FARMERS’ MARKET belongs to…
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Milking It
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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Garlic Questions Finally Answered
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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If These Walls Could Talk
Above: A young visitor catches a view of Los Luceros' historic hacienda. Photographs by Inga Hendrickson. IT'S A CLOUDLESS SKY, a swath of uninterrupted blue that contrasts with the umber…
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New Mexico's Community Garden Revolution
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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Los Poblanos's Community Ideal
THE CAT'S NAME IS Mouse. Mouse likes to sit in a wicker basket on the old wooden bench outside the front door. The two chubby ducks will likely be nearby, ready to eat out of your hand before slowly…
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Things We Love: Ratón's Berry Beef
Above: Berry Beef: it’s what’s for dinner. Since the first Berrys, John and Patrick, came to the territory of New Mexico and registered the Quarter Circle B Brand, the Berry family has been carrying…
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Young Farmers
Above: Goats, chèvre, and student, Isaac Lopez, at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market. About 18 years ago, Patricia Pantano and her husband, Greg Nussbaum, started a school in Santa Cruz, east of…
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Green Stays in New Mexico
Above: Los Poblanos Historic Inn's new South Field Suites. Courtesy of Los Poblanos Historic Inn. LOS POBLANOS HISTORIC INN & ORGANIC FARM Down a cottonwood-shaded lane and beyond rows of aromatic…
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