Today Margaret Garcia shows us how to make pie crust for our pumpkin pies. We already roasted and steamed our calabasas (squash) and froze them in previous workshops. Now we are getting the crusts ready. This recipe is not only … Continued
Today we continued our activity of turning our calabasa mexicana (local winter squash) harvest into pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving. As before, we open the squash with a knife and take out all the pulp and seeds, saving the seeds for … Continued
Yesterday afternoon rolls up two small school buses filled with 22 students and three staff of the Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning out of Denver, Colorado. This is the second time RMSEL visits Sol Feliz and camps out. AIRE … Continued
Today was the beginning of getting our squash harvest ready for pumpkin pies! We also have plans for soup, bread, pancakes, and pumpkin rolls using this same method. First we cut open the squash. Sometimes with a native squash this … Continued
Today we brought down about half of our chicos hanging from the rafters in the porch. We untied the strings holding them together and put the loose cobs in the cajete above. We then use one cob against the other … Continued
Here is Marissa demonstrating the method to clean seed using two bins, unprocessed seed, a tarp, and the wind. In the picture above, we had already harvested the amaranth plants by cutting the plants at the base of the stem … Continued
This is our second year of going through our garlic harvest and separating it into different size classes. This is useful to know how our garlic is doing and allows us to better answer questions around the effects of soils, … Continued
The goal today was to clear the field but also to find any remaining crops for the harvest. We knew we had lots of seed corn and dry beans to harvest from the milpa but also found a few remaining … Continued
Today was a day to go through the field and get all the crops that remain (see our next post). In the processed we remove all the corn stocks and put them in a big pile to clear the field. … Continued