this week we drive the camper van from Tucson Arizona to Las Cruces New Mexico
along the way Kait works on a farm, we take a step back in time explore an old
mining town and I stock up on chilies.
One of the things I've been looking forward to as we're traveling around the
country work on a farm and I finally get to do
that today so we've drove down from Tucson last
night to Benson spent the night at the love all right
let's do this you got me up early so let's go and you
haven't had coffee yet all right off to the farm and I have my outfit on for the
day ready to go
oh babe how's it going harvesting some spinach I took a taste that stuff is
pretty good yeah exchange program a little different than my one day stint
at the farm you don't mind me sharing your story sure babe nick is originally
from Maryland and he came out here to be in a warmer weather and something
different but Nick is a firefighter and when he's not firefighting he's doing
some other fun activities right now harvesting spinach with me
so what's after the spinach after the spinach carrots what time is it anyway
it is almost 11:00 quarter to 11:00 time flies when you're having fun yeah it
does it doesn't get any fresher than this No
the food grown here is delicious yes it is I can't wait to taste the carrot
and what web variety was this again there mohkum carrots mocha
yeah slender pencil like mmm good stuff taste it oh man
nips um the greens it's a part of the parsley family
Oh yummy yeah I never cooked those carrots no that would be a wave they
typically don't even make it to the cut see my fridge this would be something
you buy at the market and eat on the way home I've seen CSA members pick it up
and we bundle them into like five or six and she she takes them and just puts the
whole yeah I want to make sure I don't pick them too small just go out to the
really bushy ones yank it out without ripping off the Greens so definitely
don't grab the green Oh getting my hands dirty I think we're going after about 28
pounds 28 pounds and I don't X amount of carrots however it turns out - we'll
just wait figuratively I brought you a bunch of carrots for lunch
thank you I'm gonna go back through and pick some more cuz we're short okay back
to work and what's up doc without me I'm hungry it's hard work sitting in a van
watching you digging the dirt I'm having a ball
good see you later enjoy so you got all your carrots babe let's see pretty thank
you and I'm talking about the carrots I know
ladybug so I'm with Joe the farmer and owner of south wind farm and if people
are interested in learning about your sustainable way of farming and how you
do things they can reach out about a work exchange program yep you can see
our listing on help X go to our website triple W south winds farm org and you
can look at our Instagram feed at south wind farmers thank you so much for
having us you're welcome that was a hard day's work my back is
already a little sore but so rewarding and well worth it I got all of this
stuff in exchange for my work garlic carrots butternut squash that is just
absolutely divine and the Carmel spinach that I'm crazy about enough about me
what have you been up to all day worked on responding to a lot of email and
patreon comments stuff like that but for those who are wondering why I wasn't out
working it's not because I didn't want to it's because I'm really not able to I
have a bad back and all that bending over to pick and harvest the produce
would have been killer for me I don't think I could have lasted the full four
hours that they were out there well you get to enjoy the fruit of my labor
I'd quite literally yes I do entering tombstone let's go find a parking spot
let's see what tombstone is all about so where's the gunfight it's over there but
I think you need tickets
howdy like I'm in a Western so what do you think so far western Christie type
of town yeah it's like watching walking through movie set with gift shops just
enjoy it for what it is
that was a fun walk some interesting history but let's head on down to Bisbee
he's a very cool little town of course you find a spot right in front of the
coffee shop of course
leave me our market Bisby you want a free sticker there it is
all right my love you lead the way okay this reminds me of a huge around who's
Weaver's all right we better keep going there are more businesses ahead
and we're in Las Cruces New Mexico time to hit up the farmers market
makes me really miss leo it's really strange being here without them I don't
know van life without leo
my heart aches
so would you get so far so far we have Jerusalem artichoke and locally grown
pecan apparently pecans in addition to chiles are a big part of the New Mexico
economy
baby husky
what's his name? PeeWee! So you and your husband started
the farm or his family okay well I've read wonderful things about
your children thank you yeah all right off to El Paso okay you need
direction any direction okay
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