Our Homestead Mission

Food is a fundamental need, and God gave us the means to appropriate it. Food is beautiful, entertaining, and brings people together. The Harvest Trail is about teaching and providing experiences for people who care about food, agriculture, and mountain homestead living. We will cover homesteading, farm-to-table recipes, policy and changes going on to our food systems, and offer many great experiences on the farm such as harvest parties, wild game butchery and recipe creation, flower arrangements, crafting and more. We think it’s important for all of us to know where food comes from, how we can support local farmers and producers, and teach people how to grow their own food.

Summer Season 2021 Update:

We are still on hold for providing classes for the 2021 season. Instead, we are working hard to create new growing spaces (like our small pumpkin patch) and dialing in our animal production (with the addition of goats and a few more fowl). That being said we are open to being site hosts for others events and workshops so be sure to drop us line.

How we began… A “Before & After” Story…

Our homestead was an abandoned foreclosure property owned by HUD when we came to see it…
The exterior paint was almost nonexistent. The kitchen actually was nonexistent- no cabinets, no sink, no appliances. Mice trails ran along the walls, the fireplace and stove piping were missing, and the polyurethane on the wood tongue and groove walls was yellowing. An invasive tree species, the tree of heaven, literally had hundred of suckers coming up between cement cracks, between the porch boards and every available nook and cranny. The garage door was broken, the outbuildings were losing siding, and the properties five gates where no where to be found. It was NOT a sight to behold.

Now the properties inside and outside “phase one”, as we call it, have been completed. After we won the bid on the house we completed a 203K loan on the farmhouse and had a contractor come in and do the remodel work. We gutted the master bathroom and reworked a beautiful claw-foot tub in the guest bathroom. We enclosed the open master bedroom and painted the walls, leaving the beams and ceiling raw wood to help open and update the farmhouse. The Meat Man, aka my husband, Starson, configured the small kitchen into a wonderful seemingly large space with granite counter tops and black matte stainless steel appliances. We then spend time building large raised gardens beds outside, planting over 50 shrubs and trees, and countless native perennials, herbs, annual flowers and veggies. This meant adding drip across the entire two acres, and yes, this is just phase one.

If you want to see more before and after photos and learn more about how we acquired our homestead for only 136K and then used a 203K loan to finish our inside phase one for 206K click on the blog link below.

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For now, enjoy more after photos in this blog post. Photos were taken by Ed Macias with Real Eye State Marketing at request of Elite Partners New Mexico. Both of these experts will “wow” you with their knowledge of real estate, communication skills, and professionalism, which are all attributes that will help you sell your New Mexico real estate listings.