Farmer/designer/teacher
Teaching art to children in the public schools is my day job, and since the big harvest in October it’s a focus that leaves little …
Teaching art to children in the public schools is my day job, and since the big harvest in October it’s a focus that leaves little …
James, Tom, Matt, Ella, Jake, and Ryan picking up the fresh cut greenthread in the Fall 2009 The day we all took time out of our …
Most farmers calculate their water use in acre-feet. Each acre-foot is an acre of water a foot deep, which is 43,560 cubic feet of water, …
A new day for the greenthread farm with the first harvest all in and barely the space to dry it! Lots to do in the …
The quality of this herb is evident by the strong aroma as we work around the hoop house. It dries in the shade on steel …
My technical advisor for the Organic Weed Control in Perennial Navajo Tea Greenthread Project is Charles Martin of the NMSU Alcalde Science Center in northern …
It is the day before sampling of the four trials in order to establish baseline data. Thedeous and I are trying out the harvest methods …
A big crop is forming in the long days of hot sun that have marked the peak of summer. Greenthread crop is ready to harvest in …
It has been cold this spring so all heat-loving plants are a bit behind. This photo shows a crop of Navajo tea greenthread that won’t …
Early in the season visitors arrive at the farm to see how things are going. Charles Martin is my technical advisor for the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Project exporing organic weed control methods for greenthread cultivation.