Casita on the farm

First Stop Medanales, NM

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July 3rd 2007
June - July 2007 We've been here since Tuesday, June 5. Our friends are starting an organic farm on fields that have not been plowed for probably 20 years. We are in their casita ( a small guest house) overlooking the fields. Huge Cottonwood and Elm trees tower the edge of the fields, mosquitoes swarm in the early evening and mornings, the acequia (irrigation ditch) tumbles along outside our f ... read more

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