Farewell Fall 2015!

The Buckhorn gang has chosen their top 5 pics of fall, enjoy!

Catherine Captures...

 What's Fall without a Feast? Thanksgiving celebration

 Alpen-dome-glow with Gizmo taking a break at the end of the shift!

 Ridgway Noel Night

 Catherine leading the line to the Walpini!

 Mars grows...for winter edibility!

Pat's Picks

 You see some mighty sunset horizons perched below Buckhorn Mountain

 Arugula and spinach, not going gently into that good night whilst raging against the dying of the light!

 Flavor saving the taste of the cherry tomatoes for the future...

 Mars and Scorpio aglow

The Dome-ship has landed! 

Eli's Elite

 Interlopers at the intern house, cheeky!

 Fall, always good for a fresh dusting of the white

 Bed building in the Walpini

 A snowy sun window before the setting...

Another sun sets at the gardens...

Joe's Jewels

 Wershin' and spinnin' the salad

 A fresh fall harvest of arugula and lettuce

 Eat Local(s)!

 Pat pluckin' potatoes a-plently!

Rosemary and Bay standing tall

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A Buckhorn Update by Catherine

The view from inside the Dome on a snowy day

Hello friends,

Winter is slowly approaching here at Buckhorn Gardens. This week, we sadly said goodbye to most of our outdoor veggies. With the heavy snowfall and low temperatures, only a bed of arugula, spinach and some carrots remain. However, what a delight it was to shovel away the snow and uncover the arugula to find these fields of green!

Not to worry though, as many farms are winding down, the Buckhorn crew has been hard at work, prepping and filling up all the high tunnels with your favorite greens. We are happy to say that the last of the greenhouses has been planted with several varieties of spinach, chard, kale, mustards, lettuce, and many more, to fill your CSA orders and your tummies with veggies throughout the winter!

            This week, we also welcomed two new members to the farm family, Big Red and Oreo. This spring, they will help us improve our crop beds by rooting up weeds and add fertility to the soil as they graze. For now, they are busy munching on leftover food scraps and keeping warm during the winter months.

Come by the farm to see our winter operation and meet these little piglets, or come visit us at the Montrose Winter Market from 10-1 most Saturdays!

The Buckhorn Crew

Joe, Patrick, Catherine, Eli, Gizmo

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Partners Mentoring Youth Chili Cook-Off

Winter is not quite here, but the weather is just goldilocks right for chili! This Saturday (11/28) in Montrose from 11-2, Buckhorn will be at the Lark and Sparrow (511 E. Main St.) supporting a great local cause, Partners Mentoring Youth.  This program serves Delta, Montrose, and Ouray area youth by promoting youth development, building a sense of social responsibility and self-esteem; to reduce and prevent delinquency and substance abuse through a variety of services emphasizing volunteer participation and community involvement; to develop youths' skills and abilities so they can make positive changes and become responsible citizens; to increase community awareness of the problems youth face and foster and implement a commitment by the community to solve these problems.

We will be taking my father's recipe and tweaking it a bit with as many farm ingredients as possible to produce an elk (garnered from the hills of Buckhorn Mountain) and a veggie only loaded chili. Come out and support a good cause and fill your bowl as much as your belly desires whilst nourishing your heart in supporting a local charity this Saturday!

The Buckhorn Crew
~Joe, Gizmo, Patrick, Catherine and Eli

Update: Buckhorn finished a close 2nd in the People's Choice Awards!

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Aught '15 Fall Farm Photo Tour!

The crew would like to give you a tour of all the fruits of her labor and we could not do it without your continued support. Thanks!

There have been some awful nice sunrises...

 Some celery will make it into CSA boxes soon...

 A lovely flower bed on south side of the walipini

 An herb bed on the south side of the Wala-pini!

 Catherine at the goat stanchion milking away

 Mustards, Arugula, lettuce, and carrots germinating under row cover on left

 Late season onions still in the ground

Garlic was grown in the forefront and there are a few more taters to dig up near the dome

What's in the dome? Tons of cabbages!

 Broccoli in sunrise light

 Cabbage interspersed with lettuce

 Fig tree has been bearing well this year

 Bay tree overtowering the rosemary bush

 We just moved indoors recently, planting broccoli interspersed with lettuce (some direct seeded and some transplanted)

 This field has kohlrabi, mustards, swiss chard, kale, carrots, asian greens, and arugula

 A life blood on the farm, the compost pile! Reduce, reuse, recycle

 Onions curing in the soon to be filled high tunnel

 Cucumbers still producing and cantaloupes on the left make for a lovely fragrance in Polaris, our northern high tunnel

 Winter Squash on the left and right with hot peppers sandwiched in the middle!

 400 or so tomato plants (cherries on the right; heirlooms on the left) bearing a mass amount of fruit these days, trying to beat the cold nights

 Tomato bird's eye view, carrots planted on both sides of each row!

 The 150' long walipini (2 rows of tomatoes in the middle)

 A row of sweet peppers against the 20' buried northern wall of the walipini

 Okra loves the midday sauna heat of the walipini!

 Goofy Rocky and pensive Zen, what bothers her so?!

 The  new winter goat abode in the 'Boneyard'

 Once the tire is PUMPED UP and the fields are harvested, this contraption will be our mobile chicken home, moving to and fro around the farm, letting the chickens gorge on the green and bugs! We use a solar electric fence to keep them confined.

Picked up some 2-3 month old chicks for future egg production

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