Los Poblanos Organic Garden Co-op

We stopped off at our organic garden row in the Los Poblanos Community Garden. What a magical place!! The kids and I felt like we were in a beautiful flower jungle. We explored and played in the garden for a bit, then found our row. We brought home some tasty veggies and some glorious fresh cut flowers.

Our colorful Veggy Basket
Some of the beautiful flowers we picked from our row.
Jenna in the flowers
Kids playing in the garden
Jeremiah checking out some hot peppers
A pretty fresh-cut sunflower bouquet

Los Poblanos Organic Community Garden

We stopped off at our homeschool co-op community garden today to weed and water and took a few pics.

We weren't able to get the shed locks to open, so we couldn't use the watering cans. So instead we used a couple buckets laying around to carry water to our garden row from the water barrel. Los Poblanos irrigates the entire garden on Wednesdays, but under the dry, hot New Mexico sun, we must water more often.It was a hot day. Glad we brought some water to guzzle! Jenna worked hard pulling weeds and built up quite a thirst! Here's our row right there in the middle of the pic. We've got carrots, tomatoes, turnips, lettuces, flowers, peppers, and cucumbers sprouting and growing.Jackson watering our row.Jenna and I watering the turnips and carrots.Jenna is very into taking care of the garden. She is also quite hands-on and helpful in whatever we do. I really love having her go everywhere with me. She is such a joy to have around and such a wonderful daughter.
(And yes, I can see that it's time for 1000 sit-ups. Yikes! Not a good position for my tum-tum! I suppose having 3 children, twins weighing 7 pounds EACH, followed by an 11 pound baby girl, takes it's toll on the old tummy muscles. Eeek!)

Los Poblanos Gardening

Another terrific joyously fun gardening day for our Homeschool Co-op at Los Poblanos Organic Gardens.

The Los Poblanos sign at the fields.
Some of our crew watering, planting and weeding.
Dad Arnold and baby boy.
Dara and son
Friends Leedy and my Jenna.
Our green and red peppers are sprouting!
Our 'maters are looking great!
Compost Kids having a blast together!
Jennifer and kids (new baby in the sling)
Dad Hovey very proud of the turnips he planted about a week ago.
Karen and Alexis with kids, choosing some additional flowers and veggies to plant.

Los Poblanos Co-op Garden

I haven't been able to keep up with our Blog now that we are back home from Arizona, because our computer is still on the fritz. My only computer access is through the local libraries. And by the look of things lately, in regards to the lack of availability of computers and the long waiting lines, it would seem that we are not the only family without the use of a fickle computer. Sigh.

Anyway, we've been catching up and taking some rest time since our 2 week Arizona trip, but we've been doing some fun things, too, along the way.

This week we met with some of the families in our Homeschool Co-op Organic Gardening project at Los Poblanos. We worked together, children and adults, weeding, hoeing, preparing the soil, and finally planting the seeds. So, far, we have planted tomato plants with cages, green, orange and red peppers, turnips, flowers, cucumbers and carrots. We still have about half a row left to plant, which will probably be with some of the thinned out seedlings, as well as some garlic, snap peas and possibly beans.

But at least we've got something in the ground! The weather here has been so odd, teasing us with Spring, but still cold and windy much of the time. It seems we are having a late Spring, but I think we are past the frost period, so hopefully in the next 2 weeks we will be seeing little green seedlings peeking their cheerful leaves above the ground!

While preparing the soil, the kids discovered several toads hopping over our garden row. We are happy to see them here and encourage them to stay and eat any greedy insects that try to munch our baby sprouts.
Jackson enjoys getting to know critters on an up-close and personal basis.Our Co-op Garden Mascot!Some of the Co-op Garden KidsJackson and one of the Moms, Alexis working hard, getting dirty preparing the soil for the seeds.Jackson and Dane watering the planted seeds together.Sharon, our Co-op Garden Green Thumb Leader planting some baby carrots.Our Garden Row, half planted, at Los Poblanos Organic Fields.We didn't finish planting and watering until quite late. The kids had a great time exploring and playing at the garden.

Community Garden Project

This month a group of us homeschool co-op members started working on an Organic Community Garden Project at Los Poblanos Fields in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. For more on Los Poblanos, click HERE.

During our first meeting we spread the compost into our garden row. During our meeting today, we all dug a trench to help aid in the irrigation of our plants. Our next meeting will involve planting our veggies!

Here's some pics of us hard at work.


Jenna insisted on getting right in there and digging a trench, but the shovel was a little too heavy for her. She still made quite a huge effort, though. That's her in the pink in the top photo. The bottom photo's 'girl-in-pink' is another co-op friend named Skye. Some of the other kids are out playing beside the acequia bridge.
Jax and Jem worked hard digging the irrigation trench, too. And they especially enjoyed working alongside the adults and are excited about growing their own fresh food. (Jax is wearing a blue shirt and Jem is wearing the red shirt)