We have some great events this year! To get a deep discount for members, you must be a member before you sign up for an event-otherwise you will have to pay the non-member fee. Go to the MEMBERSHIP PAGE to become a member. Check back on the Feb 28 to see the events!
Below is the classes/events schedule for 2019 with detailed info on each class and sign up through EVENTBRITE. You can print off an abridged version (to put on your refrigerator!) here: 2019 HG CLASS SCHEDULES
MARCH 2019
Wednesday, March 13th
4 pm to 6 pm
Home Grown New Mexico
Seed Exchange-FREE
If you are looking for free seeds for your vegetable or flower garden or have some to share, start this new gardening season with us at the Santa Fe Seed Exchange. *New this year– book sale of gently used gardening books and magazines-cheap!
Location: Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association building
2520-B Camino Entrada (next to Habitat ReStore on south side of building) • Santa Fe
Fee: FREE for everyone! No need to sign up-just show up!
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Sunday, March 24th
4 to 6 pm
Spring Fling Potluck-FREE!
Come to our Spring Fling Potluck and find out what Home Grown New Mexico classes and events are being held in 2019. Please bring a dish. Jannine will go over the class schedule.
Location: Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association building
2520-B Camino Entrada (next to Habitat ReStore on south side of building) • Santa Fe
Fee: FREE for everyone! No need to sign up-just show up!
Sunday, April 14th
12 noon to 2 pm
Hoop House Gardening-
Grow Y’ Own-Be Your Own Farmer Year Round!
Ken Kuhne produces affordable, renewable, Western Red Cedar hooped raised garden or grow beds for growing one’s own food supply. Come learn how garden or grow beds will help you reduce your carbon footprint. Support the Green movement so essential to the health of our planet and giving you the ability to grow vegetables year round!
Instructor: Ken Kuhne
Location: Santa Fe Community College/directions will be given
to participants
Fee: $5 for members/$10 for non-member
Please sign up through Eventbrite below:
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Sunday, May 5th
12 noon to 2 pm
Learn how to do a drip system and save water!
This hands-on class is an introduction to installing your own drip irrigation in your garden, which is the best and most water-efficient way to water your plants. You will learn which parts you’ll need, how to connect your irrigation system to a faucet, how to set the days, times, and duration with a water timer. Then you will help plan and install drip irrigation in a raised vegetable bed and a flower garden. Irrigating shrubs and trees will also be discussed. Bring needle-nose pliers and hand pruners. Mike McGeary and Jannine Cabossel will show you all about drip systems, and how to simple it is to do your own.
Instructor: Mike McGeary and Jannine Cabossel
Location: Mike McGeary’s casa: 835 E. Zia Road • Santa Fe
Fee: $5 for members/$10 for non-member
Please sign up through Eventbrite below:
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Sunday, May 19th
12 noon to 3 pm
Cheesemaking: Creamy Feta
Hands on-learn how to make a soft, creamy Feta cheese with goat’s milk. Feta is first recorded in the Byzantine Empire and was associated specifically with Crete. Traditionally, feta has been made by peasants in all of Greece from sheep’s milk, although goat’s milk has been used in more recent times. Take home samples.
Instructor: Diane Pratt
Location: Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association building
2520-B Camino Entrada (next to Habitat ReStore on south side of building) • Santa Fe
Fee: $20 for members and non-members
Space is limited to 12 people-Waiting list will be available.
Please sign up through Eventbrite below:
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Sunday, June 9th
12 noon to 2 pm
Masa in the Casa: TORTILLAS
Join us for a workshop on how to make homemade wholegrain corn tortillas! Corn tortillas are best steaming fresh and are simple and fun to make at home.
Using a variety of colorful heritage and local corn we will demonstrate how to nixtamalize and grind it into masa. Try your hand at pressing and cooking the tortillas! Taste and compare the variety in flavor and textures…
Instructor: Alessandra Haines and Diane Pratt
Location: Steve and Alessandra Haines house:
52 Mansion Drive • Santa Fe
Fee: $5 for members/$10 for non-member
Hands-on: limited to 12 people
Please sign up through Eventbrite below:
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Sunday, June 23rd
12 noon to 2 pm
Kimchi
No Korean meal would be complete without a side dish of kimchi. As American palates shift toward spicier condiments, this ancient Asian “pickle” is becoming more popular on U.S. tables. Just like sauerkraut, the basic ingredients of kimchi are cabbage and salt. Unlike sauerkraut, it’s fermented with a special type of red chili powder. Recipes often include ginger and scallions, and sometimes fish sauce or paste. Ancient, traditional methods of fermenting kimchi used a large crock buried in the ground.
In this workshop, we’ll use modern equipment to make kimchi in a small batch that can ferment on your kitchen counter. Everyone will leave with copies of all recipes. If you’ve been thinking about trying kimchi, but thought it might be too complicated or too spicy, this workshop is for you!
Instructor: Teri Buhl
Location: Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association building
2520-B Camino Entrada (next to Habitat ReStore on south side of building) • Santa Fe
Fee: $5 for members/$10 for non-member
Please sign up through Eventbrite:
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Sunday, July 7th
12 noon to 2 pm
Get the Buzz on Native Bees!
Do you like melons, pumpkins, and squash? Well, you should thank the native bees! Honeybees might get the most attention, but native bees really are the major pollinators of food crops. Did you know that there are more than 500 species of native bees just in New Mexico alone? Do you know the differences between the native bee and the honeybee?
Come to the Native Bee class July 7 and learn all about these often overlooked pollinators. Bob Zimmerman, retired biology teacher, will show you how to provide a bee friendly yard for native bees and how to make a native bee house to encourage them to hang around your garden!
Instructors: Bob Zimmerman
Location: Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association building
2520-B Camino Entrada (next to Habitat ReStore on south side of building) • Santa Fe
Fee: $5 for members/$10 for non-member
Please sign up through Eventbrite below:
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Sunday, July 21st
12 noon to 2 pm
Santa Fe
Community College
Hydroponic Tour
Did you know Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) has one of the best examples of hydroponic and aquaponic greenhouses? Charlie Shultz, who has been a pioneer in the field of hydroponics and aquaponics for more than 20 years serves as Lead Facility for the (CEA) program at the College and will give us a personal tour of the hydroponics and aquaponics systems using soil-less production techniques on campus. His students end up with a green thumb and a wet thumb! Come see how sustainable agriculture practices affect the ecological health of New Mexico and the world.
Instructor: Charley Schultz
Location: Santa Fe Community College • 6401 Richards Ave • (SFCC) Trades and Tech Wing • Santa Fe (directions will be given to participants)
Fee: $5 for members/$10 for non-member
Please sign up through Eventbrite below:
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Sunday, Aug 11th
12 noon to 4 pm
Mer-Girl Gardens Tour
This is going to be a special field trip this year just north of Espanola in La Villita. This tour will be well worth the drive. They practice sustainable and bio-dynamic farming with a focus on open-pollinated varieties. Ron Boyd and his wife Debora started Mer-Girl Gardens on about 6 acres and have expanded it. They have developed it into a beautiful farm with Certified Organic orchards, vineyard, culinary herbs, seasonal vegetables, fruits and flowers.
Debora has an image of a water bearer who brings water to their oasis in the drylands. Everything they’ve done started in 2001 from pretty much bare, lifeless, overused conventionally farmed fields. The old orchard was about 1 acre with 15 old apple trees.
In the last 20 years they’ve added 350 or so fruit trees, about 100 different varieties of apples 20 varieties of peaches 15 varieties of pears 15 varieties of cherries and plums and a few other curious additions. Around the same time they had restored the old fields, they added another acre, plus a bunch of berries and vegetables. Debora and Ron did the Taos farmers market for about 10 years with piles of berries, 70 or so varieties of tomatoes, greens, garlic, and fruit when they were lucky. About five years ago the interest and focus has been about producing seed contracted by retail sellers, Baker Creek heirloom Seeds in particular. Inspired by grain school in 2018 and the grain team, they are beginning to educate themselves and learn about old time varieties of small grain, wheat, rye, barley. They currently run and irrigate in the neighborhood about 12 acres. They have a large focus on how to feed themselves with minimal fossil fuel and off-farm amendments. They’ve explored small farm tools and techniques. They welcome visitors and include school classes regularly in the spring and fall.
Instructor: Ron and Debora Boyd
Location: La Villita, NM (between Alcalde and Los Luceros) (directions given to participants)
Fee: Free to members/$10 for non-members
Please sign up through Eventbrite below:
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August 25th
12 noon to 2 pm
Flowers Good Enough to Eat
Growing edible flowers can be incredibly easy. Add beautiful colors to your meals with edible flowers! In this class, we will learn about which flowers are edible flowers. We will walk around the the Tomato Lady gardens and gather edible flowers and herbs. Then, we will taste our freshly cut flowers and sample some dishes made with them. Samples will include flower butter on crostinis, a cherry tomato salad with a soft herb vinaigrette and flowers and fresh berries with a lavender whipped cream. Handouts included.
Instructor: Jannine Cabossel/The Tomato Lady
Location: Tomato Lady Farm: 56 Coyote Crossing • Santa Fe
Fee: $5 for members/$10 for non-member
Please sign up through Eventbrite below:
Sunday, Sept 8th
12 noon to 2 pm
Gnocchi–Fluffy little pillows of potato-y pasta goodness!
We will be making 2 varieties of these wonderful, and versatile, Italian pasta dumplings. One will be a classic russet potato gnocchi and the other will be a healthier sweet potato gnocchi. You’ll be amazed at how quick and easy it is to make this delectable dish! Learn to make gnocchi by hand with Pam Goff. Free tastings! Delizioso!
Instructor: Pam Goff
Location: Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association building
2520-B Camino Entrada (next to Habitat ReStore on south side of building) • Santa Fe
Fee: $5 for members/$10 for non-member
Please sign up through Eventbrite below:
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Sunday, Sept 22nd
12 noon to 2 pm
Jammin’ Jellies
What happens when we have a bountiful fruit year or when a friend stops by with a few pounds of fruit? If you’re not into crushing grapes with your feet-make jams and jellies! Even if you’re diabetic, you can preserve your own tasty, healthy treats.
Jam, jelly, butter, marmalade, preserve, or conserve–what are they? Is pectin always necessary, and what kind should you use? What sweeteners work? Is it OK to seal jars with wax like Grandma did? This workshop explores these questions and more!
Most of us don’t have root cellars today, but we have modern equipment and ingredients that extend shelf life and make exciting new recipes possible that Mom & Grandma only dreamed of. Tired of that boring grape and strawberry jam the supermarket sells? Attend this workshop and discover a whole new world of tasty fruit spreads!
Instructor: Teri Buhl
Location: Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association building
2520-B Camino Entrada (next to Habitat ReStore on south side of building) • Santa Fe
Fee: $5 for members/$10 for non-member
Please sign up through Eventbrite below:
The class schedule is up! We are ready to rock and roll. You can go to the CLASSES/EVENTS AT THE TOP OF THIS WEBSITE and see all the classes and events we are offering in 2017. CHECK OUT OUR MARCH EVENTS!
We have a great SEED EXCHANGE coming up on March 3 working with the Seed Summit organization that is having a workshop here in Santa Fe. The event is free and we will be over at the Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion building.
A ‘Sourdough Bread Making’ class on March 5, ‘Evolution Gardening/Revisiting the Victory Garden in the 21st Century’ class on March 19 and a ‘Spring Fling Potluck‘ will feature Avery Aguilar from Santo Domingo Pueblo. He will give a presentation on Native American Pueblo gardening techniques.
And that’s just the March line up! To see the whole schedule go here:
2017-hgnm-class_event-schedule
Once again we need you to sign up at the ‘Eventbrite’ badge so we know who is coming and prepare for them. Also if there needs to be any changes, we can contact you. The sign up is same as last year and worked well.
Most of the classes (cheese classes excepted) are free to members and don’t forget with your membership, the Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour is free to members too, so join soon so you don’t miss out on any of these great classes and events. Those of you who joined last year will get a renewal notice via email when your membership is due.
Hello everyone and welcome to a new gardening year! By now hopefully you are receiving you seed catalogs in the mail and deciding on your seeds for your 2017 gardens.
We here at Home Grown New Mexico have woken from our slumber and are now planning this year’s events. January is an exciting month where we are planning many NEW workshop/classes as well as some of the favorites like cheesemaking will be returning.
We can’t let the cat out of the bag yet but as soon as they are firmed up, we will tell you. It’s going to be a great year!
So while winter is here and the gardens are sleeping, we at Home Grown New Mexico are not sleeping. With the new year here, we are busy planning classes and events that we on think will be interesting to you in 2016. We plan on having a meeting later this month to firm things up and will then share with you all the good news as it unfolds.
We also will have some changes in how the membership works this year that we know you will like. Our membership doubled last year and hope you will all join again!
Last year we know we were on the right track as every class filled up and we got some great feedback. We learned that Sundays seems to be good for everyone and you all will even travel on a field trip like the one we had up at Gordon Tooley’s Tree Farm in Truchas.
Some other highlights last year included the cheese classes (we plan to have more this year), the Permaculture classes, the Seed Exchange, the Early Spring Planting Class, the Microgreens Class, and actually every class was great! I know cause I went to every one of them and learned so much from all the great teachers.
Then we had a great Kitchen Garden and Coop Tour last summer with every home on the tour having fantastic gardens that gave us all some great ideas for our own gardens.
We had a potluck in the fall with Deborah Madison as our guest speaker and had a fantastic turnout. It was held at Paul and Christine Drumright’s beautiful home. It seemed like this was the perfect time for everyone to catch up, share some great harvest food, enjoy Paul’s gardens and house and listen to a wonderful speaker.
So let this be a tickler before we unfold what 2016 reveals!
Happy 2016 everyone!!
Jannine Cabossel
Chairperson, Home Grown New Mexico
Our June’s bustling with 3 classes this year. So you don’t miss them here is the info and sign up on all of them. The first one is next Sunday-Hugelkultur Gardening on June 14
Sun. June 14
Hügelkultur gardening
Learn how to make Hügelkultur raised beds
Time: 12 pm-2 pm
Instructors: Mike Reed & Mike Warren
Location: 747 Old Las Vegas Highway, Santa Fe
Hügelkultur is a composting process employing raised planting beds constructed on top of decaying wood debris and other compostable biomass plant materials. The process helps to improve soil fertility, water retention, and soil warming, thus benefiting plants grown on or near such mounds. Come learn how it works, how you can make one and see one in progress. This class is held past Fina Cafe on Old Last Vegas Hwy around the corner from Eldorado.
Help keep this class free! Become a 2015 Member here for only $35 – includes all classes and tour. TAX DEDUCTIBLE!
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Sun June 21, 12 pm —2 pm
Vermicomposting made easy!
Learn about vermicomposting and how to build a compost tea brewer
Time: 12 pm- 2 pm
Instructor: Duskin Jasper
Location: Milagro Community Garden (Off Rodeo Road east of Sam’s Club-Turn north onto Legacy Court. Garden is behind the church, ‘Church of the Servant’ on corner) • Santa Fe
Become a worm farmer! Let red wigglers do the work of transforming your household waste into “black gold” vermicompost. This workshop will allow you to discover how simple it is to create an outdoor vermicompost bin from straw bales and salvaged materials. The class will cover what goes in a worm friendly compost bin and how to care for worms and harvest their compost.
Duskin will also demo how to make an inexpensive compost tea brewer. With a brewer, you can make a compost tea for your plants. The use of compost tea has been shown to increase plant growth and suppress disease.
Duskin Jasper is certified by the Santa Fe Master Gardener Association in conjunction with the City of Santa Fe as a public outreach educator to promote residential composting in Santa Fe. Presented in cooperation with Milagro Community Garden (MilagroGarden@yahoo.com)
Help keep this class free! Become a 2015 Member here for only $35 – includes all classes and tour. TAX DEDUCTIBLE!
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Sun. June 28, 12 pm —2 pm
Fruit Trees with Gordon Tooley
Learn what varieties of fruit trees do well in NM and how to grow them.
Time: 12 pm-2 pm
Instructor: Gordon Tooley
Location: PO Box 392 Truchas, NM 87578 info@tooleystrees.com 505-689-2400 (THIS IS A FIELD TRIP) This is a field trip up to his property so you may want to carpool or offer someone a ride. Here is a map to his property: gordon tooley map
We will have a meeting point for those of you wanting to help give rides or pick up a ride up to his property and follow us up there. More info on where to meet coming up by June 20 here.
Come learn from the Master! Focusing on varieties that are drought tolerant and adapted to high pH, Gordon grow species trees, shrubs, and grafted fruits for our area. His stock is grown with organic methods and he practices holistic orchard management.
He has many heirloom and uncommon varieties of grafted apples, apricots(sometimes), plums, pears and cherries. Some of them may be new to you but are an opportunity for you to grow varieties that have all but disappeared from our markets. His grafts are on rootstocks carefully selected to match climate and soil types in this area. His species trees and shrubs are easy to care for and will provide screening, habitat and food for wildlife and yourself.
He believes in selling small caliper trees with well-developed root systems. The fabric root bags we plant in are key factors in building a fibrous root structure. Smaller caliper trees establish more quickly with less transplant shock, and grow more vigorously in difficult sites than large caliper trees.
Help keep this class free! Become a 2015 Member here for only $35 – includes all classes and tour. TAX DEDUCTIBLE!
Wednesday, September 10th
Community Potluck
Time:6-8 pm
Home Grown’s Potluck will be at the Whole Foods Community Room (Cordova and St.Francis location). Come join fellow gardeners to talk about fruit and vegetable gardening in our area and eat good food. What’s going on in your garden? Come listen and share.
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Sunday, September 21
Preserving Your Harvest Class
Learn how to can stewed tomatoes and pasta sauces
Time: 12 noon -2 pm
Instructors: Duskin Jasper/Jannine Cabossel
Location: Milagro Community Garden (Rodeo Road and Legacy behind church-2481 Legacy Court)
RSVP to 505-983-9706 or email: homegrownnewmexico1@gmail.com
(CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED SO YOU MUST RSVP) so we know how many jars to bring to the class.
What to do with all your tomatoes at the end of the season? Come join ‘The Tomato Lady’ from the Santa Fe Farmer’s Market and Duskin Jasper and learn how to can tomato pasta sauce for your pantry to enjoy in the winter months long after harvesting! This hands on class will cover how to make different pasta sauces. Students will take home a jar of tomato sauce. We will also discuss different canning methods for our high altitude.
Welcome to 2014! Home Grown New Mexico is offering many new classes, workshops and events this year. Many are hands-on events where you will learn how to do or make something. To view our Home Grown New Mexico class schedule go to the top menu bar and click on 2014 HOME GROWN EDUCATION CLASSES. After viewing them we hope you are as excited about them as we are! To view other classes/events offered in Santa Fe, go to the 2014 COMMUNITY CALENDAR.
This year our very popular Annual Seed Exchange will be on March 12th at Frenchy’s Barn from 4-7pm where people exchange seeds and ideas.
Our Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour this year will be on Sunday, July 27th where you will be inspired by beautiful kitchen gardens and chicken coops in Santa Fe. Stay tuned for more information as we get it together.
Come to our monthly potlucks on the last Tuesday of each month. Bring a dish and share some food and knowledge. We have guests speakers that will cover topics on gardening, beekeeping, backyard chicken coops and urban farming and an answer/question session for those needing answers to their garden questions. Novice or expert gardener? All are welcome! For more info go to the top menu and click on POTLUCKS. Our first potluck this year will be on February 25 and feature Thomas Guthrie.
Looking to garden but don’t have the space? How about getting a community garden plot? To check them out and learn more, go to the top menu and click on COMMUNITY GARDENS.
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