A visit from Jim Baca

A visit from Jim Baca on Saturday the 4th of August yielded some gorgeous photos of Deb Montoya's OILGROWING FIELD in Pena Blanca !  Check out Jim's blog : http://onlyinnewmexico.blogspot.com/
to see a few more!

Jim has family property in Pena Blanca with irrigation improvements... hmmm... wonder who wants to lease it for OIL PRODUCTION next year???

Only in New Mexico: Glorious August

Only in New Mexico: Glorious August
THANK YOU Jim Baca for sharing your photos with your followers! Maybe next year you will be one of Sandoval County's OILGROWERS yourself!

Blooming Fields

Check out the video of our wonderful fields in bloom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpczmctksqs

First Annual Sunflower Festival!

SUNFLOWER  FESTIVAL  DATES MOVED UP !

In order to catch the fields in full bloom, the dates for the First Annual New Mexico Sunflower Festival have moved UP !!

August 25 & 26, 2012 is the weekend to visit Pena Blanca, New Mexico just north of Albuquerque and 8 miles from Interstate 25.

Music, food, arts and crafts and educational presentations will fill the buildings and parking lot of the local Community Center, on New Mexico Highway 22 in the middle of town.

Horsedrawn hayrides will carry merrymakers to view nearby fields of blooming flowers !

Vendor booth spaces are available now at special low prices and local musicians are invited to set up a time to play under the BIG TOP.

Call the Festival Director at (505) 917-8189 for a place at the center of attention!

PLANTING A THOUSAND SUNS

     Well ! Wish a mathematician could estimate the number of suns that were planted in Pena Blanca this week --- thousands! Seedlings are UP in three fields and irrigation will bring them up (5 days hence) in several more this coming week.
     Here's a link to a video of some planting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VskCHQK4rS0

     Now that this milestone has been reached, we turn our attention to planning the Festival in September.  Watch this space for news!

March 13, 2012

Here is a link to a short video excerpted from the October Bloom Field Day and the February Sunflower Workshop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpczmctksqs Following the workshop we have over 50 acres committed to plant this spring and in the next few weeks we expect to sign up several more participants, still aiming for 100 acres under cultivation in our first season.... stay tuned!