2023 Board of Directors
Jannine Cabossel
Jannine is a Master Gardener who practices organic growing methods. She has become a Jr. homesteader of sorts being as sustainable as is comfortable. There is a horse and goats down in the barn and she keeps chickens for eggs. She became a top bar beekeeper to have pollinators for the garden and honey on the table. She grows heirloom tomatoes and other vegetables that she sells at the Santa Fe Farmers Market as the Tomato Lady. She calls herself an ‘artisan farmer’ because she like to add beauty to the gardens by combining art, flowers and vegetables and because she feels her gardens are not big enough to be called a farm but too large to be an urban garden. She like all aspects of vegetable gardening from growing to harvesting to preserving and cooking. You can follow her website where she shares all her experience and knowledge in vegetable gardening in our high altitude.
Lynne Roberts
Moving gladly from New York City, Lynne has been living in Eldorado for the past ten years. Struggling with strong drying winds, a poor excuse for “soil,” gophers/pack rats/and mice, she has found that gardening is a definite “challenge,” albeit “enchanting” in New Mexico. Lynne discovered gardening when she was nine years old, and was sent to summer gardening “camp” by her mother to keep her busy for that summer and away from the “mean” streets of New York City and Lynne’s wild gang of nine year old friends… The “garden” was in the asphalt school yard of P. S. 104, where the janitors had pulled the asphalt out of a three foot wide/20 foot long area, to create the “garden.” Lynne’s first crops were radishes and peanuts, and she immediately developed a lifelong passion for growing things and a deep respect for Mother Nature, the Earth, water resources, ecology, and all living vegetables. She lived in NYC for thirty years, with a mini garden attached to the side of her apartment. She learned how to grow in small containers and tiny spaces. Moving to Eldorado, she found that she had to continue growing in containers and raised beds with hardware cloth to maintain any possibility of outsmarting those gophers and of seeing any vegetation survive. To learn more about gardening in the high desert, Lynne took the Master Gardener course, graduating in their most illustrious class, along with Jannine Cabossel and Duskin Jasper.
Lynne is interested in veggie growing, micaceous pottery making, encaustic and acrylic painting; she is a former teacher of French (mais oui) and a psychotherapist/hypnotherapist/life coach…
Lynne has been active in HGNM for the last five years and LOVES HGNM because of the wonderful people who coordinate the activities, present the workshops, attend the classes; for her, HGNM is a friendly, casual, non hierarchical homesteading group where people have fun, learn lots, and eat cheese…
Mike McGeary
Mike McGeary and his wife Sherry Snyder moved to Santa Fe in 2013, after retiring from public policy careers in Washington, DC. Both had parents who were active gardeners; in fact, Mike’s parents grew all their food when he was a boy. Living in row houses in Washington, with little land, they were restricted to growing some flowers (thank goodness for farmers’ markets, they say!). With more land in Santa Fe, Mike and Sherry have become master gardeners and have resumed vegetable and fruit growing with great enthusiasm. They like to cook, so fresh ingredients are vitally important to them–especially vintage vegetables that haven’t had their flavor bred out in the interest of uniform size and color, resistance to bruising, and other mass production and distribution considerations. Mike is pleased to be part of Home Grown New Mexico and its important mission of teaching ways to garden successfully in our short growing season and semi-arid climate.
Bob Zimmerman
Bob is joined us a couple of years ago as a new Board Director. He has taught many classes for us and is an avid gardener.
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