Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour

We look forward to seeing you on our Third Annual Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour in Santa Fe on Sunday, July 28th from 9am-2pm or for the first year in Corrales on Sunday, August 11 from 11am-5pm. These events are presented by Home Grown New Mexico and Edible Santa Fe.

Buy Tickets Here for Santa Fe

Buy Tickets Here for Corrales

The tour is self-paced. Guests will go to the homes in any order that they select with a wrist band to identify them.  Look for the tour addresses and map the week before the tour on this site. The homeowners will be the main tour guides, but also have help from the Master Gardeners and volunteers from each location to review edible gardens, chickens, bees and any other self-sustaining items such as solar, water catchment and more.

Volunteering is a way to see the tour for FREE on Saturday and help us on Sunday. There are jobs including helping people park, serving cold drinks, hanging signs, posting flyers and helping in the gardens. You can also receive time dollars if you are in the Santa Fe Time Bank. Please email homegrownnewmexico@gmail.com or call 473-1403 for more details and how you can help.

For questions contact homegrownnewmexico@gmail.com or 473-1403.

Classes This Weekend

 Here are the two classes from this weekend.  Please sign-up online.

Bees & Pollination
Saturday, June 15 from 10-12pm
Santa Fe Skies- Indoor Class
14 Browncastle Ranch (end of Cerrillos at Hwy 14 &599)
Enjoy breakfast from Crumpackers Bakery and Cafe

RSVP for this class

The pollination process is necessary for most of our important commercial food and nursery crops. The honeybee is the major pollinator for crops such as grapes, onions, the cucurbits, almonds and fruit crops.  Although there are other pollinators, the farmers of these crops would loose most of their production without the honeybee. This class will provide an in depth look at the pollination process and its relationship with the honeybee. It will include the results of an ongoing study of the garden and wild plants in the Santa Fe area that are available throughout the year to honeybees. An emphasis will be placed on the identification and flowering schedules of the plants most visited by the bees.

Ken Bower has had a passion for growing plants and vegetables since his youth. Living in Santa Fe for the past 14 years, he and his wife created Eldorado Windy Farm. He completed the Master Gardener course in 2001, sells his lavender products and beeswax at the Eldorado Farmer’s Market and assists friends the Santa Fe Farmer’s Market.  Ken is also a beekeeper and active member of the Sangre de Cristo Beekeepers Association.  For the past couple years Ken has been actively recording the flowering schedules of plants to determine which pollens are most sought after by his bees.

Organic Pest Control
Sunday, June 16
10:00am
Frenchy’s Community Garden
Presented with City of Santa Fe Parks Division

Please RSVP for class

(Park on Osage and Agua Fria and walk to garden.  Past the playground, labryinth and garden in a black fence.  Class is past the garden to the right of orchard on park tables)

Jannine Cabossel, a Master Gardener and ‘The Tomato Lady’ at the Santa Fe Farmers Market will teach a class on how to control pests and diseases. Jannine has extensive experience in growing vegetables on her 2000 square foot garden using all organic methods. Follow her blog at giantveggiegardener.com. Suggested $10 donation or become a member for $35.

Local Organic Meals on a Budget 2013

Local Organic Meals on a Budget is back with a 3rd season of wonderful classes. They are just $22 for a 90 minute class where you can enjoy tastings.

Kitchen Angels, the Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute, Home Grown New Mexico and The Santa Fe School of Cooking have teamed up to present educational cooking classes on how to cook local, organic meals on a budget.

Joining under the name of the Healthy Food Cooking Coalition of Santa Fe, this community enrichment program brings together the talents and resources of all four partners to put the focus on enjoying healthy, local food that is both delicious and affordable. See the planning committee online.

2013 Schedule of Cooking Classes

 Classes: Each 3rd Wednesday of the month
June through Dec. from 5:30 – 7:00 pm

Location: The Santa Fe School of Cooking
125 North Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe

You must register in advance for each class. Class fees are non-refundable. Please arrive before 5:30 to enjoy appetizers and so we can start the class on time. Due to unforeseen circumstances, presenters and topics may change without notice.

The Mediterranean Table: 
One chicken, many healthy meals

with Tracy Pikhart Ritter

Executive Chef and Culinary Director, The Santa Fe School of Cooking

June 19th  •  $22 

Register Now! 

Includes tastings, recipes, Whole Foods give-away

Stretch one organic chicken into several spectacular meals with Chef Tracy’s innovative recipes and ideas. She’ll be showing us how to divide up the chicken and make a soup and pasta dish, among others, incorporating the flavors of the Mediterranean!

Chef Tracy is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in NYC and the International Pastry Arts Academy in Katonah, NY. She is considered an expert in nutritional cuisine with an emphasis on Southwestern flavors. Tracy opened the first “Tex Mex” restaurant in NYC in addition to working at Arizona 206, The River Cafe and Gotham Bar & Grill before heading west to become the Executive Chef at the prestigious Golden Door Spa and consultant to Rancho La Puerto in Tecate, Mexico.

Tracy’s Southwestern cuisine was featured on the cover of Bon Appetit Magazine’s Guide to the Best Restaurants in America and in a six page feature in Art Culinaire magazine. She has appeared on Good Morning America and the Food Network numerous times, cooked at the James Beard House as a Rising Chef, trained chefs in Malaysia, debated Julia Child on the merits of healthy cuisine, owned two restaurants in Santa Fe and helped write the curriculum for the New York Restaurant School.

Classes each month:

Please register online for one or all the classes!

July Class: Handmade Pizza with Garden Fresh Veggies, Local & Squisita! with Roland & Sheila Richter the Chef & Restaurant Owners
of Joe’s Dining

August Class: Vegan? Gluten free? 
How about just plain delicious! with Ryan Gabel the Chef, The Palace Restaurant

September Class: Local Organic Cooking Class with Erin Wade the Chef and Restaurant Owner of
Vinaigrette

October Class: It’s the Great Pumpkin Fest with Harry Shapiro & Peyton Young the Chefs, Cookbook Authors & Restaurant Owners of
Harry’s Roadhouse

November Class: A New Twist on Holiday Favorites
, Turkey Day Timesavers, Tips & Treats with Andrew Cooper, Executive Chef
Terra, Four Seasons Resort Rancho

December Class: Saucy & Raw: Guys in the Kitchen! 
Soups, sauces & tasty holiday treats with Danny Rhodes & Matthew Sherrill

Volunteer for the Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour

Do you want to see the edible gardens, farms and backyard chicken coops in Santa Fe or Corrales?  Volunteer  to assist with the Kitchen Garden & Coop Tours; the third annual tour in Santa Fe on Sunday, July 28th or the first tour in Corrales on Sunday, August 11th.  We are co-hosting the tours with Edible Santa Fe as a fundraising event in order to provide free classes in 2014.  Tickets are on sale at Brown Paper Tickets for $35.

The tour in Santa Fe will include six amazing gardens, water catchment, permaculture, raised beds, unique vegetables, fruit & nut trees, herbs, chicken coops, goats, beehives and more community homesteading.  In Corrales we have six properties with small farms, orchards, gardens, chickens, bees and more.

Want to help with the tour?  We need volunteers for the morning, afternoon or all day.  All-day volunteers will receive lunch from local sponsors and participate in a preview day on Saturday to see the tour as a large group.  That is a fun day to tour the locations with other volunteers.

Here are some opportunities to be involved:

SANTA FE

July 28 morning from 8am to 12pm at one of the tour locations

July 28 afternoon from 11am to 3pm at one of the tour locations

July 28 all day from 8am to 3pm at one of the tour locations

CORRALES

August 11 morning from 11am to 3pm at one of the tour locations

August 11 afternoon from 2pm to 6pm at one of the tour locations

August 11 all day from 11am to 6pm at one of the tour locations

Volunteer activities will include assisting the homeowner at tour sites, directing parking, ticket taking, answering questions and posting event signs. There is a required 1 hour training on Saturday or Sunday the week before the tour.  You don’t need to be a garden or chicken expert to volunteer!  Most of the questions and activities will be around the event.

Home Grown New Mexico also has monthly events, computer work and other ways to help.  Visit our Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour page for more details or contact Amy at 473-1403 or homegrownnewmexico@gmail.com.

How to Grow a Giant Pumpkin

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Yesterday I taught a class on How to Grow a Giant Pumpkin and told them I would put the full color version in a pdf format on-line for them to use. I discussed all the basic information on growing a giant pumpkin from picking a seed to hand pollination to determining the direction the vine will grow to positioning the baby pumpkin as it grows to harvesting it and much more.

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Here are Jannine's thoughts on growing your giant pumpkin. Great class with 20 people on Saturday. We planted one in the Earth Care Community Garden. Hope the summer camp kids get to see a pumpkin start in July.

Learn About Squash and Giant Pumpkins- on Saturday!

Saturday, May 25
10am – 12pm

Earth Care Community Garden
Country Club and Jaguar (Next to Southside Library)

Jannine Cabossel, a Master Gardener and ‘The Tomato Lady’ at the Santa Fe Farmers Market will teach a class on how to grow a giant pumpkin. She has extensive experience in growing vegetables on her 2000 square foot garden using all organic methods. In 2011, she had a 448lb pumpkin named Mad Max that won the largest pumpkin in the state. She will discuss squash bugs, row cover and maintenance for large squash plants. Follow her blog at giantveggiegardener.com.   Master Gardeners will receive 1 CE credit.

At noon, the garden is hosting their potluck and beginning work day for those that are interested in joining the garden for $25 per year.

Contact homegrownnewmexico@gmail.com or 473-1403

Bee and Garden Classes

The pollination process is necessary for most of our important food crops. Home Grown New Mexico is giving three classes in June to help people understand how to garden to attract these pollinators.

We will also host two homes with bees in the Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour in Santa Fe on July 28th and in Corrales on August 11th.  Keep looking for fundraising ticket sales on this website.

Look at the COMMUNITY CALENDAR for more details on other gardening, beekeeping, cooking classes and other community homesteading classes.

Saturday, June 1st from 9am-11am
Pollinator Garden Planning
(Please RVSP for Class)
Earth Care Community Garden
(Jaguar and Country Club, by Southside Library in Santa Fe, NM)
Home Grown New Mexico and Earth Care
• Loretta McGrath will discuss which plants pollinators love
•Cost $10 suggested donation
For more information: 505-473-1403/homegrownnewmexico@gmail.com

Saturday, June 15th from 10am-12pm
Bees & Pollination Class
Home Grown New Mexico (Please RSVP for Class)
Santa Fe Skies- Indoor Class
14 Browncastle Ranch (end of Cerrillos at Hwy 14 &599) in Santa Fe, NM
• With Ken Bower
• Learn about fruit trees and honeybees
• Enjoy Breakfast from Crumpackers!
•Cost $10 suggested donation
Contact homegrownnewmexico@gmail.com or 473-1403

Saturday, June 29 from 10am-12pm
Pollinator Garden Planning
Skarsgard Farms Urban Agriculture Education Center
3435 Stanford Drive NE in Albuquerque, NM
Home Grown New Mexico and Skarsgard Farms
• Loretta McGrath will discuss which plants pollinators love
•Cost $10 suggested donation
For more information: 505-473-1403/homegrownnewmexico@gmail.com