The Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch Report

Writing from Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch in Tumacacori, Arizona, winter is the time for introspection, a time for settling in and processing the past year, to prepare for the spring. The New Year brings opportunity for growth, sowing new seeds, trying fresh experiments.  Here in the garden we are thankful to have abundance year round.  With the cold (it has gotten down to twelve degrees!) not everything will grow, but we’ve been able to protect quite a bit with our simple set up of hooping and covering.   We are blessed to be eating a variety of organic kale, collards, spinach, cabbage, radish, lettuce, tatsoi, bak choi, mustard, arugula, brussel sprouts, broccoli, cilantro, sweet potatoes, carrots, and parsnips.  There is no food available in any store that is more wholesome and fresh than what is picked in the morning from our fields in the morning, delivered to kitchen, and found beautifully prepared for lunch and dinner that day.  For this we give our thanks to the many hands that participate in the process, from those who create the compost piles, to those who water, pull weeds, sow the seeds, mulch … to the hands who create with it in the kitchen.  It’s a big group effort, which also includes a whole host of unseen creatures on the microbial level, and unseen beings of a more angelic nature, who all contribute to this complex symbiosis occurring.