The Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch Report

Greetings CSA members and friends, The monsoon rains finally made it to our gardens and we had 2 inches in the last 10 days. Everything changes and all plants respond with vigor including the weeds, of course. Often the highly ionic charge of nitrogen rich rainwater makes everything radiant and ...

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Greetings CSA members and friends, Last week at the Santa Cruz Farmer's Market there was a tremendous effort made by all vendors to show good spirits even in 110 plus degrees. Everyone found joy in serving our customers. We heard laughter and lots of conversations felt like a large family reunion. ...

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Greetings CSA members and friends, Our CSA newsletter is now posted every week on our Avalon Gardens Farm report site; you can now refer your friends and family to it; and you can send us any comments or questions on the blog attached to each week. We are ...

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Greetings CSA members and friends, We are truly blessed with the abundance of our gardens. In the desert and in the food deserts of the world we have learned to grow and adapt to many circumstances. All of us are amazed at some of the greens that are still growing in ...

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February 18, 2010—The sun bows gracefully behind Tumacácori Peak.  I'm precariously perched on a sturdy mesquite branch lashing two large wooden boxes to a weather-worn snag.  Around the property, fruit trees are already flowering, irises are making their pre-season inquiries, and the first signs of green are fading up from ...

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We are back and we have settled in the Santa Cruz River Valley, also known by the natives as the 'Palm of God.'  Our newest exciting project is greening the desert.  Check out this video (recently updated), created by Geoff Lawton, the director of the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) of ...

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Can you believe it’s Spring! We have emerged from a mild winter here in Southern Arizona. With the renewal of life, of energies, of the complex relationships between insects, microbes, plants, animals, and people, we have an opportunity to give thanks for all that occurred since this day of last ...

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We’ve got the garlic in! That feels great. Takes a group effort to plant half an acre by hand. The early hard frost (24 F in the Lower Garden) in mid October knocked out our Basil, Eggplant, Peppers, Tomatoes, Okra, Cucumbers, and Summer Squash, altering ...

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Farm Report From Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch in Tumacacori, Arizona. 2/08 February witnessed the preparation and anticipation of spring. In this climate spring sneaks in fast out of winter, and is gone into the blazing summer without waiting for anyone to catch up. We are getting our seedlings going ...

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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 ...

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