Today we arrived at school in anticipation of opening the horno to have a Thanksgiving feast. In opening the horno, we found our turkeys cooked to perfection and took them inside to prepare for serving. Other foods were made including … Continued
Here is Miranda Romero rolling out some dough for our apple and pumpkin pies. The apples were locally harvested and we grew the pumpkins. We are excited to have our Thanksgiving meal tomorrow that will consist of many locally grown … Continued
Today we engaged in a workshop to make pumpkin pies for our Thanksgiving feast. Though we did not grow wheat, we were able to obtain some regionally grown wheat and use our grinder to make it into flour. We had … Continued
Here students are taking the kernels of chicos off of the cob of corn, a process called ‘desgranando chicos.’ After this we will run the loose chicos in front of a fan to get rid of all the residual corn … Continued
We have been working with our garlic in our math class at Chrysalis, looking at the sizes of the bulbs in the population. We harvested almost 100 bulbs of garlic from our two rows last year and this year are … Continued
Here we are preparing some land to plant garlic on Mr. and Mrs. Mondragon’s land that AIRE leased for this purpose. Here you see Chrysalis Senior David Branchal wrestling 8 horses to get the job done. In the process, the … Continued
Today we gathered again to work the rest of the apples. We reserved the applesauce-making process after the freezing and dehydration workshop as the apples do not have to be as fresh to make applesauce. We have already made about … Continued
Today we organized a massive school-wide apple-processing event to commemorate our potential to actualize food security given local abundance and generosity from our local apple trees and their owners. Orion Cervio, head teacher at Chrysalis, was able to get boxes … Continued
A couple of weeks ago I received a phone call from a representative from the New Mexico Department of Agriculture to attend a forum on the coexistence between traditional, organic, conventional, and genetic engineered agriculture. Participation in the forum was … Continued
It was great to incorporate this chicos-eating and stringing-up workshop as part of the school day at Chrysalis. Not only did all the students get to eat fresh chicos, but the Sembradores of our summer program were able to facilitate … Continued