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Acequia Culture

Clearing the fields at Sol Feliz
24 Mar 2013

Clearing the fields at Sol Feliz

by Miguel | posted in: Acequia Culture, AIRE, Sol Feliz Farm, Uncategorized | 0

Today we got some ‘Sembradores’ together to initiate the coming growing season by clearing the fields.  We basically just cut all the dry weeds and raked them into a pile.  We will save the dried up weeds as a carbon … Continued

Presenting at a Global Acequia Conference
3 Mar 2013

Presenting at a Global Acequia Conference

by Miguel | posted in: Acequia Culture, Uncategorized | 0

Today I was invited to speak on a panel about our local acequia issues.  This panel brought the Global perspective of yesterday’s presentations to local issues.  I shared the panel with some colleagues and friends in the acequia culture, in … Continued

Attending Global Acequia conference
2 Mar 2013

Attending Global Acequia conference

by Miguel | posted in: Acequia Culture, Uncategorized | 0

It was great to be invited to this conference organized by Dr. Sylvia Rodriguez, the New Mexico Acequia Association, and New Mexico State University.  It was great to see respected colleagues such as Steve Guldan and Carlos Ochoa of NMSU … Continued

More snow at Sol Feliz
17 Dec 2012

More snow at Sol Feliz

by Miguel | posted in: Acequia Culture, Research, Sol Feliz Farm | 0

We are doing our best to keep track of the accumulated snow fall here at Sol Feliz in hopes of being able to correlate how much acequia irrigation we get in relation to the total number of inches of snow.  … Continued

Getting chicos ready for sale
30 Nov 2012

Getting chicos ready for sale

by Miguel | posted in: Acequia Culture, AIRE, Chrysalis Alternative High School | 0

Here we are weighing out 1/2 pound packages of our chicos.  By the time of this posting, all the Native Yellow and Hopi White corn chicos are sold, except the ones we are keeping for ourselves.  We still have some … Continued

Desgranando chicos
9 Nov 2012

Desgranando chicos

by Miguel | posted in: Acequia Culture, AIRE, Chrysalis Alternative High School | 0

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

Planting garlic with Chrysalis students
6 Nov 2012

Planting garlic with Chrysalis students

by Miguel | posted in: Acequia Culture, AIRE, Chrysalis Alternative High School | 0

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

Field prep for planting garlic
6 Nov 2012

Field prep for planting garlic

by Miguel | posted in: Acequia Culture, AIRE, Chrysalis Alternative High School | 0

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

Harvesting dry legumes for food and research
11 Aug 2012

Harvesting dry legumes for food and research

by Miguel | posted in: Acequia Culture, AIRE, Phenology, Sol Feliz Farm | 0

Today we got around to some harvesting of our dry peas and fava beans.  These kinds of crops, if not picked fresh for sweet peas or green beans, are best left until the very end of their life cycle to … Continued

A visit with Corrales YCC program
6 Aug 2012

A visit with Corrales YCC program

by Miguel | posted in: Acequia Culture, AIRE | 0

Today I made the journey to Corrales to give the Youth Conservation Corp program a presentation as part of AIRE’s program offerings.  This is the second time we presented to them, last year I spent a day with this YCC … Continued

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