Community Gardening

Saturday we ventured into Santa Fe for the first annual tour of our seven local community gardens. This event was a co-effort from the Santa Fe Community Gardens and Home Grown Santa Fe. Amy from Home Grown Santa Fe is truly a force. She has turned her hobby into a movement! I know there were many people that made this happen but we have to do a super-duper shout out to Amy- she’s like Wonder Woman!!

It’s a great idea and it was a lot of fun; so much fun we only made it to four out of the seven gardens.

Mike: Molly can be a bit of a chatty Kathy.

Molly: OMG, you were SO chattie-chat-chat. Don’t put it all on me (this time) !

Mike: Whatever… Do you remember who had the best line of the afternoon?

Molly: Was it the guy who grew up on a sheep farm in Southern NM?

Mike: Yeah, one year there was a drought so they had to sell their ‘in town’ house to get money to feed their sheep. From then on his mom would refer to it as ‘The year the sheep ate my house.’!

The weather in NM is always a challenge! Luckily we haven’t had to sell our house to keep the garden going. Yet…

The pictures really speak for themselves so lets both of us just shut up and let people take a look.

Frenchie’s Field Community Garden

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Maclovia Community Garden

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Milagro Community Garden

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Railyard Community Garden

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How cool! And how reassuring to see so much abundance — I love this time of year, so many ripe, full things all over the place. My favorite pic is that sunflower!

http://mikeandmollyshouse.com Molly

I love this time of year too! At the garden there was one plot of veggies; the rest was full of sunflowers

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Spectacular pictures, guys. Especially the ones of the railyard community gardens. This post made me a little sad. This fall we’re bidding goodbye to our community garden. The boys and I have been dismantling the raised beds and turning the ground back to the bermuda grass (it wanted back in anyway). Too much effort, not enough people.

http://mikeandmollyshouse.com Molly

I think we’re real lucky here. It takes the ongoing dedicated of people to get something like this going and than keep it up and growing. The city set aside funds to help out a few years ago. That’s when they went from 1 community garden to 7.

Mjichael’s Mom

Super photos! They remind me of my wanderings among community gardens in Philadelphia during the annual City Gardens Contest, organized by the Pennsylvania Horticlture Society. Maybe solo and group gardeners of Santa Fe will someday be able to compete in — and be inspired by — similar events.

Did I detect a papercrete fencepost at the Maclovia garden? Love it!