The Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch Report

Come to the Tubac Plaza Main Stage Saturday, May 19 @ 7:00PM and enjoy Los Pinguos: "Vivacious and infectious, the sound of Los Pinguos has claimed fans worldwide, from their hometown to the streets of Los Angeles, with their mixture of Latin rhythms, Spanish ...

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Come to the Tubac Plaza Main Stage Friday, May 11 @ 7:30PM and enjoy "Baraka,"  a magnificent journey without words, using a phenomenal musical score to emphasize breathtaking visuals for a mesmerizing cinematic experience. Click Here for More Information   Greetings CSA family and friends, This is the season of planting. Last ...

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Greetings CSA family and friends, Last weekend we hosted our first workshop "Extending the Growing Season and Adapting to Global Warming: Sustainable Growing Methods". We spent seven hours sharing with the participants valuable knowledge, experience and references where to get the materials. It was a very good ...

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Greetings CSA family and friends, We just planted our Sweet Potato slips, which are like sprouts and each one makes one big plant with several tubers. We also planted Okra, Edamame (edible green soybean pods)  and Asian noodle beans. Next we will be direct seeding the first planting ...

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Greetings CSA family and friends, We are still in the "day at a time" season, "will-it-frost-or-not tonight?" In the last week we had mornings at 22 degrees and highs into the mid 80's. The leaves of all the mesquites are now in a very rapid growth and their ...

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This was a very special Easter weekend. Over one hundred neighbors and new friends came with their children, parents and grandparents. Many came all the way from Tucson; one large, three generation family came all the way from Colombia. The egghunt, the hayrides, the food, the performances ...

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Easter week has arrived. We will  be hosting our great annual Easter event with hundreds of kids and their families. The gardens are getting groomed for the tours, and of course some of the weeds are growing better than ever. Especially since our soils improved, and the ...

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Greetings CSA family and friends, Last week we had lots of fun with potato planting, as well transplanting more onions and leeks during our "Hands In the Soil Day".  We are also focusing on improving all of our soils with well broken down compost and mulches. The ...

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Greetings CSA family and friends, It's time for potato planting. This Saturday we will start the first round of early and main season varieties: Yukon Gold, Purple Viking, Red Pontiac, and Kennebec. Students of the Cochise College "Sustainability Course" will be volunteering at Avalon Gardens as part of ...

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Greetings CSA family and friends, The onion and leek seedling-shoots are getting planted and we are having lots of fun doing so. We started them all from seed in our small propagation hoophouse around mid to end of January. We chose about a dozen varieties of onions and ...

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