Genesis Gardens Homestead

04/22/2026

We have green onions available now! We had some for lunch, they're delicious. Give Sally a call 575.403.7036.

04/21/2026

Just a quick update... we're watering onions, cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, rutabagas, a few carrots 🥕, beets, and chard. The chard is ready, if you need some greens, give us a shout. The rutabagas are also ready if you're wanting to try one of those. They're really quite tasty. It's finally feeling like it's time to get some transplants in the ground.
We've been busy transplanting chile and tomatoes into 6packs for transplanting into the garden. They are still small but growing fast. The frost last week was pretty cold here, 28 degrees inside the greenhouse. A few potatoes outside turned black but will come back fine. Everything else is fine.

03/20/2026

We've been busy with ground preparations and planting onions. We lack about 1200 being done. Here are some pictures of onions planted under and around our new soon to be cucumber arch. Yes, we're going vertical with cucumbers. We planted vertical in the greenhouse last summer and I was pleased with the concept so we've moved outside to escape the heat buildup inside. We're hoping that this will help increase yield and facilitate harvesting. The onions should about be mature before the cucumbers shade them too much and they are companion plants to boot! Anyway, we're kinda excited to see how this will work. We're hoping for a crop failure on our grasshopper population. Part of these onions will be harvested for green onions so they should be ready about the last week in April or the first week in May. We should have a good supply of them into the end of May. Then the bulb onions will start being harvested late June, God willing. In the meantime we will be hoping for death to grasshoppers. We value each and every one of you and thank you for your support.
I've shared some of our life outside the garden also. Happy Birthday to my uncle Ray, he was 85 yesterday and still going strong. We love him dearly, he's the last of the previous generations in my family.

02/19/2026

02/19/2026

Hello, a few words this evening. Prayers going up for the fire victims in NM,Ok,TX, and Kansas. What a tragedy! It seems we're seeing more and more of this sort of natural disasters. We pray for safety of the workers fighting the fires also. We have family who selflessly spend a large part of their time serving in volunteer fire departments in Maljamar NM, Buffalo Ok, and Hardesty Ok. Countless others also serve and we thank them all. Just a little update on what's been happening here at the farm in Tucumcari. We have a bit of cabbage just about ready, and also some really nice Romaine lettuce that is ready as we speak. We have carrots 🥕 planted(not ready), beets and a few turnips which I mainly planted for greens which are ready. I had a batch of them last night. I even planted some rutabagas which I have no idea what they taste like as I've never met one on my plate! These will be ready later in the spring. They are a relative of turnips and are widely grown in the upper midwest. We shall see...These are all in the greenhouse. In the meantime, I've been getting ground ready outside the greenhouse for onions, a small amount of chile, jalapenos for sure, pole beans, tomatoes, okra, and of course everyone's favorite cucumbers! We're hoping for a crop failure in the grasshopper crop and planting all this outside in faith. I've been building a new bed for cauliflower and broccoli 🥦 in the greenhouse and it's ready now. Our other beds are spread with compost and woodchips and are ready to plant. We will have a small raised bed outside the store with herbs. We have got cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, onion and garlic chives, and geraniums started in trays inside with much more to be started in the next few days including chile, jalapenos, many herbs, tomatoes and much more.
Here's a few shots of our life from the last few months!

11/08/2025

I've been clearing out beds in the greenhouse and replanting. Put in a few cabbages, some romaine lettuce, one small bed of turnips, mainly for greens, a small bed of carrots, small bed of beets, and a small amount of rutabagas. Also planted a few cabbages, chard, romaine lettuce, rutabagas, turnips, and beets outside in containers. All looking good so far. Here are a few pics for you! Thank you for continuing your support this year, we appreciate it so much.

09/09/2025

Sorry it's been so long since we have done a post. I'm sure most of you have visited with us at farmers market this summer. We've had a limited amount of produce available, some raised at the farm and some purchased and resold, most notably sweet corn. This week we should have available at the farm a limited amount of tomatoes, celery, purple onions, cucumbers, and jalapenos. Also honey, pinto beans, shelled pecans. We are really happy with the production in the greenhouse and will be continuing and expanding the range of produce coming out of it. We will be planting carrots, beets, chard, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, maybe some cauliflower, and celery, most for late spring harvesting, with some being harvested in the fall. We are pleased with the pepper harvest in our mini-greenhouses with the insect netting over them. These will be added to next year also as they hold promise for production of chile in small quantities. We have already used them this year for specialty peppers which Sally has used to make jellies for a long time. The jelly is awesome and sells out very quickly. See picture of the orange and yellow bowl full just picked today! The celery has been great and has a very unique flavor, unlike anything in the grocery store. So in closing, thank you for bearing with us in this transition year as we experiment with new ways to us of producing great healthful food for us and you! Although we are not producing at the scale of earlier years, we are still at it and look forward to many years of continued production for you.