Today is Thursday and the Mayordomo (ditch boss) of my acequia (community managed, gravity-fed irrigation ditch) called me yesterday and asked if I wanted the water. Even though I had the water last Sunday, I decided to take advantage of … Continued
Today we made an opportunity to collaborate with the GRIP gang prevention program to inspire youth into positive activities and relationships around agriculture. To make our presentation more interesting and relevant to these 5th graders of Ranchos Elementary School, we … Continued
Today we clean our Acequia for the second and final day before we bring through the water. We usually clean the Acequia Madre itself on the first day, but yesterday we actually cleaned our other main ditches known as Acequia … Continued
Today we received some more technical assistance from Taos Soil and Water Conservation District. As in previous posts, TSWCD helped us upgrade our main headgate and another diversion structure. Now we are looking at a problematic area on our Acequia … Continued
Today we begin cleaning our Acequia Madre del Sur del Río de Don Fernando de Taos. This acequia has been in existence for over 200 years and is probably going through the most challenging time of its life around now … Continued
We noticed water in the river this past weekend. There was some water in the river a couple of times in the last month or two but it wasn’t river flow, per se, but just some local snowmelt. Now the … Continued
Today I was happy to inspect some work done on our headgates from another project completed with the help of Taos Soil and Water Conservation District and contractor Monty McCarty. I am thankful to our past Commission for getting the … Continued
Today we find the shoots of the garlic we planted about two months ago. It has been exceptionally dry this year, but some rain and snow we received in the last week must’ve really helped us out.