The Wardens of Bosque Farms, New Mexico

Laura Warden and I grow some fine chemical-free vegetables and grapes here. Bosque Farms lies a few miles south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. We Wardens have no heavy equipment, so our soil is still soft enough to dig by hand with a round shovel. After a rain, even the riding arena soil often trampled by 5 horses is arable. We are able to support our own family on the produce from our half acre garden. What we don’t eat, we freeze, pickle or can. Last year we filled a medium-sized chest freezer and exceeded 200 quarts of canned goods. Jars of pickles were the holiday gifts for over a hundred of our real estate clients, friends and family members here in north central New Mexico. Proudly I tell you that our pickles have been enjoyed as far away as Frankfurt, Germany, not to mention all over the northeast US where we came from 24 years ago.