Santa Fe Community Gardens promotes local gardening and food growing by offering Santa Fe County residents garden space, resources, and education and by facilitating community partnerships.
Please explore our site and get involved!
WHAT: The Food Cadre of Earth Care is hosting a
WHY: The Youth Food Cadre is a group of 16 young professionals who have dedicated a year to work with local food and food justice in Santa Fe at the City, Farmers Market Institute, Food Policy Council, Cooking With Kids, Santa Fe Public Schools, Adelante Program, and the Teen Parent Center. The Adelante Program provides support to more than 1300 students with the average age of nine. The drive will help provide food and winter coats for this season.
1. Milagro Community Garden (Legacy and Rodeo) is accepting donations on Saturday, November 12 from 9am-1pm.
2. The Santa Fe Farmers Market will have a box inside the market building during Tuesday and Saturday markets through November 19.
QUESTIONS: Call 473-1403 or email homegrownnewmexico@gmail.com
Community Homesteading Potluck Gatherings
at the Santa Fe Complex
Grow, Raise, Cook, Preserve, Teach, Learn, Mentor, Share
The Santa Fe Complex and Home Grown New Mexico continue the Community Homesteading Potluck Gatherings at the Santa Fe Complex.
Next event is Tuesday, October 25 at 6:30pm
The goal of our potlucks is to bring individuals together and organically create an environment of education between the different levels of experience. Come if you are a novice, an expert, or anything in between in the topics of gardening, beekeeping, backyard chicken coops and urban farming.
Bring a dish to share with the group. We want this to be a zero waste event so please bring a plate, silverware and a cup. You could even bring your dish or drink in a reusable container.
Bring food donations for the Food Depot. They will accept locally grown produce, canned goods or dry packaged food. We will be delivering these donations to the Food Depot at all future potluck events.
Home Grown New Mexico hopes to continue to communicate these events and add more speakers and activities to our calendar. To facilitate this there is a suggested donation of $5 or more. The Santa Fe Complex is located at 632 Agua Fria Street with parking off Romero Street before the Ark Bookstore and visit http://sfcomplex.org/ for more detailed directions. For more information on the potlucks, email homegrownnewmexico@gmail.com or call 473-1403.
The community gardens will host the first annual Santa Fe Community Garden Tour on Saturday, September 17 from 1pm-4pm. Gardeners will be available in seven locations during these hours to give tours, answer questions and provide information to sign-up for the 2012 garden season. This is a free event. The tour is self-paced so guests can visit the gardens in any order. Visit your neighborhood garden or visit one or all of them if you do not have a community garden yet. Parking is available at all gardens. Please park on the street at Maclovia and Sunny Slope as there is not a specific parking lot for those city parks.
BEFORE THE TOUR: Come by our table at the Harvest for Peace event at the Railyard Park from 10:30AM-1PM. It is presented by the Railyard Stewards and Roots & Shoots and will have live music, fun & educational activities, face painting and a parade at 12:30. Home Grown New Mexico will share the table and will have recipes for refrigerator pickles, samples and vegetable identification games.
Come to the tour to see local food, meet gardeners and see amazing vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers. Some gardens will have garden fresh food and herb water for you to enjoy. Learn about hoop houses, fall/winter gardens and water catchment. Hear the stories of the plants and critters that lived in the gardens this year.
Visit one or all seven community gardens. Gardens include: Frenchy’s, La Familia, Sunnyslope, Railyard Park, Maclovia, Milagro and Hopewell. Here is the tour map of these locations and copies will be available at the morning Railyard events. Most locations are near downtown and have a short distance to drive or bike. For more information and map: Call 473-1403.
Join us Saturday, September 17 from 1pm-4pm for a free event.
For more information and map: Call 473-1403
Food Preservation Discussion
Saturday, September 3
8:30am-10:00am
DESCRIPTION & BIO:
This will be a discussion at Milagro Community Garden. Amy Hetager from the garden and Home Grown New Mexico will have recipes and tips to handout. Topics will include refrigerator pickled vegetables, drying and basics on hot water bath canning. Come join the conversation with your tips.
COST: Suggested $5 donation to community garden
LOCATION: Milagro Community Garden on Legacy and Rodeo Road. Turn on Legacy and the parking lot is on the right, behind the Lutheran Church of the Servant. Call 473-1403 or email homegrownnewmexico@gmail.com for questions.
Wednesday, August 24, 5:45pm
Presented with Local Organic Meals on a Budget
Learn how to can, preserve and dry foods, right in time for the abundance of harvest. This special class will show you different methods for preserving and storing fresh fruits and vegetables so you can enjoy them in the cold winter months. Dena Aquilina of Beneficial Farms CSA, Amy Hetager of Home Grown New Mexico and Loretta Fresquez of Monte Vista Organic Farm are instructors. Class is at 5:45 pm and you can register online or call 505-471-7780.
WHO IS IT FOR?
The intention of the lectures and workshops is to help the average homeowner, food gardener, farmer, rancher, land owner and landscape professional, get more value from their practice; to use waste as a resource while returning biology and vitality to the soil. We can all learn how to sequester more carbon and replenish the biology of the earth’s soil membrane with the natural practices to be discussed in the Carbon Economy Series.
We will be there!!! Come and join us !!
June 21: Acequias in the Landscape
Santa Fe’s Acequia Madre is one of the longest-used, community-operated infrastructural systems in our regional cultural landscape. It is both a reflection of Santa Fe’s geographic elements and has influenced the contemporary urban fabric for which it is often masked by. Come learn more about the acequia system through a presentation and tour of the Railyard Park’s acequias led by Paul Navrot, Master of Landscape Architecture. 11 a.m. to noon.
July 7: Vines: Pruning your Lace and Training Your Trumpets with Katherine O’Brian of Santa Fe Greenhouses
July 21: Herb Gardens: Care and Harvesting
August 4: Amazing Irises: Care and Dividing with the Master Gardeners Association
August 18: Grasses in Your Garden: Native & Ornamental with Patrick New of Plants of the Southwest
October 6: Winterizing Your Garden
For all workshops, meet at the lovely Community Room at the Railyard Park (metal building near the parking lot behind SITE Santa Fe). Gardening Workshops are 9-11 a.m. unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit www.railyardpark.org or call 505-316-3596.¡Sostenga! Garlic Harvest Festival July 2, 2011 and Tiendita Opening 2011
The Sostenga Garlic Harvest Festival is on July 2nd - Mark your calendars to enjoy music, food and celebration of the food heritage of Northern New Mexico.
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Organic Pest and Disease Control Saturday, June 25 9:00 to 10:30 am Presented with the Milagro Community Garden DESCRIPTION AND BIO: Jannine Cabossel, a Master Gardener and ‘The Tomato Lady’ at the Santa Fe Farmers Market will teach a class
DESCRIPTION AND BIO:
Jannine Cabossel, a Master Gardener and ‘The Tomato Lady’ at the Santa Fe Farmers Market will teach a class on what organic controls to use for pests and diseases for vegetable crops. Jannine has extensive experience in growing vegetables organically on her 2000 square foot garden using all organic methods. She will provide information and handouts on how to control: aphids, squash bugs, squash vine borers, tomato hornworms, leafhoppers, cabbage loopers, grasshoppers and many other bugs that harm or eat our crops. She will talk about tomato diseases and how to trouble shoot them. She will also talk about many of the fungal diseases that attack tomatoes and curcubits (squash, cucumbers) and what organic methods to use to help these crops. Come learn how to grow vegetables using organic methods.
Follow her blog at Giant Veggie Gardener
COST: Suggested $5 donation to community garden
LOCATION: Milagro Community Garden on Legacy and Rodeo Road. Turn on Legacy and the parking lot is on the right, behind the Lutheran Church of the Servant. Call 473-1403 or email homegrownnewmexico@gmail.com for questions.
