by Tracy Bogard | Sep 27, 2024 | Experiences, Garden
Meg Buerkel Hunn, Advisory Council Chair: (More) Lessons from the Garden Yes, my garden still considers me a student, and my guess is that my garden would grade me below-average… Sometimes the lessons my garden wishes to impart in me have to be learned and...
by Tracy Bogard | Sep 24, 2024 | Classes and Workshops, Experiences, Garden2Table, Recipes
Michelle Wittie: Food Preservation for the Home Gardener On Sept. 23 I attended our Gardening with the Masters class on Food Preservation with Madeline Gurney, County Program Director. I’ve been pressure canning for a long time and even I learned new stuff in...
by Tracy Bogard | Jul 7, 2024 | Experiences
Meg Buerkel Hunn, Advisory Council Chair: May Your Gardens Flourish “Everything in nature – and we’re a part of nature – was planted here to grow. And not only to feel alive, but to beget and [to] generate and [to] give life to other...
by Tracy Bogard | Jun 4, 2024 | Experiences
Meg Buerkel Hunn, Advisory Council Chair: Where Are You Finding Hope? May has been a doozy of a month! The end of another school year brings all kof seedlings to plant out in the garden, I’m just waiting for a span of time to get them planted… I am hoping...
by Tracy Bogard | May 16, 2024 | Experiences
Meg Buerkel Hunn, Advisory Council Chair: We Share Much More Than What Divides Us These two plants, to the gardener’s eye, are quite different… Obviously, one is a cactus, the other a lettuce. The leaves of one deter close interactions, the leaves of the other are...
by Tracy Bogard | May 14, 2024 | Classes and Workshops, Experiences, Information, Plant Pests
Placitas Wildflower Walk – Field Trip by Brandt Magic Sharon Walsh, Master Gardener and Botanist, recently led a Wildflower Walk in the Placitas Open Space. 16 Master Gardener interns and veterans were there. This is the second year for this successful event....