This amazing morning of February 15 started out in a cold wet fog more appropriate to Seattle. See what it looked like a short half hour later!

Springtime in the Rockies

March has arrived on the farm, but Spring is uncommitted. We continue to have nights below freezing, snow and blustery weather sprinkled with sunny days in the 40s.

We took advantage of the delayed spring to attend the New Mexico Organic Farming Conference in Albuquerque Feb 28-Mar 1. The attendance tripled this year so we rubbed elbows and shoulders as well as ideas. It was heartening to see hundreds of organic farmers in one place.

Here are some links to info and people who inspired us:

• Les Crowder, top bar hives, bee master
• Gordon Tooley, Tooley's Trees, who won the Conference's Educator of the Year Award, see his demo on the orchards page.
• Don Bustos, Santa Cruz Farm, who shared many specifics of his successful 4-season 3-acre produce farm
• Farmer Monte, Los Poblanos Organics, loved his chicken talk
• Rob Fergus, the Birdchaser
• Heidi's Raspberry Farm
• Ron Godin, our favorite local expert who put his weed control presentation on the web! Ron's a constant inspiration and font of knowledge for all the local organic growers and their apprentices. - M

Search Engine Experiment

I'm trying a Google freebie, Google Custom Search, so folks can search our farm website, which has increased in girth. There will be annoying ads along with the search results, some won't fit in with our farming philosophy. Like all things free, there's a price to be paid. This is an experiment, if you have an opinion either way. - M

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