Resiliency Reigns - Mandie Koeckes HHP & Herbalist

10/03/2025

09/26/2025

Huge thank you to the Nevada Cooperative Extension for the free High Tunnel class last week, and additional thanks to Ron of Pick'n and Grin'n and Knowledge of MatMar Farms for showing us their infrastructure and what they’re growing at their respective farms. 🌱🥗🥒🥕🥬

09/04/2025

💛💚 the colors of the harvest season! Yellow Taxi tomatoes, green beans, yellow crookneck squash, potatoes, turmeric in a hoop house, and zucchini

The weekly farm visits provide:
-Opportunity to trade labor for wholesome food and learn about our area’s individual growing conditions
-support your local food systems and bring your supply chain down to one, you and the farmer.
- real sunlight to regulate your circadian rhythm, and time spent outside with hands in the soil.
Find a CSA (community supported agriculture) and ask if they need volunteers! If they don’t, support by purchasing a farm share, and keep your small local farms thriving 🌱

08/11/2025

Wendell Berry

08/08/2025

Ooooooooooooo f*ck yeah, fungi. 🍄‍🟫 shiitakes win.

08/06/2025

Did I make this again? Yes.

Am I grateful for another opportunity to eat something tremendously delicious I will never see in a grocery store?

Also, always, yes.

Find a farmer. Eat local food.

08/04/2025

Mushies in the desert! All in our gardens, but the only ones I put in there were pink oysters. 🎀🍄‍🟫

08/04/2025

We foraged some mullein this last week on a field trip through the mountains.

These we will let dry, and use as functional incense (and tea!) to clear phlegm and icky chest colds.

When folded on themselves while fresh, they’ll keep their shape as they dry. ❤️

08/03/2025

You don’t need acres to start growing food right now. This set up was pricy, but you could make one yourself with a large storage bin with a lid, a drill, and a humidifier option.

I’m still camper living, so my dear friend Rachel gave me her countertop to use.

Nothing is ever perfect, so keep trying imperfectly.

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