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SunExplore Inside Santa Fe: Santa Fe Kids
Whether you live in Santa Fe, or are visiting us, this is a great place to find out local Community News, interesting things about Santa Fe people, some of our favorite things to do, places to visit, and places to get great bargains. There are hundreds of articles here to really let you get a feel of what Santa Fe is like and to help make you a part of our community.
What Lies Beneath the Snow
by Claudette Sutton • Tumbleweeds
Mar 4, 2010
Somewhere in the ground, under the foot of snow that still covers our yard, are hundreds of bulbs that Charles and I planted this fall. That at weekend in October, before the trees had lost all their leaves, before we put away the barbecue tongs and rolled up the garden hose, planting daff odils, tulips and grape hyacinths didn’t require a leap of faith. It was just one of those things we do sometimes in the fall, like freezing chile and picking raspberries at the Salman Ranch. Bulbs are kind of a gardener’s savings plan: you put them in the ground, wait several months, and collect the payoff in the spring with compound interest.
Free (and Very Low-Cost) Family Fun
Public libraries, rec centers, parks, pools and trails throughout Northern New Mexico
by Editor • Tumbleweeds
Jun 18, 2009
Santa Fe Recreational Centers
Sanctuary in the Schoolyard
Growing a space for reflection, connection and hard work
by Nina Bunker Ruiz • Tumbleweeds
Sep 1, 2009
A school garden is an oasis among the hot gravel yards and concrete that surround them. Green, growing things occupy a space in a mysterious, reassuring way that provides companionship. Quiet and calm reign among the growing vegetables, flowers, butterflies, bees and bugs. The pulse of time slows in the spaces students and their instructors have created. Snow peas and beans climb schoolyard fences, sunflowers nod their yellow heads to the bees, and cabbages throw back their baby-bald heads with complete trust.
Turncoats to Teammates
by Claudette Sutton • Tumbleweeds
Sep 1, 2009
Not so long ago in American history, “collaboration” was a dirty word.
A collaborator was someone who aided the enemy: the Nazis during World War II, the communists in the Cold War. Perhaps more than just a linguistic anachronism, the word indicated defiance of American values of independence and individuality; to collaborate was inherently sinister, morally corrupt.
Growing Community
by Claudette Sutton • Tumbleweeds
Jul 31, 2009
“Welcome to our community space,” Sue McDonald said as I arrived at the Acequia Madre Elementary School garden on Wednesday. “A lot of things are happening here. We’re weeding and nibbling and doing a lot of visiting.”
A lot was happening indeed. By 10 on a summer morning this was a multi-generation, multidisciplinary, even multi-species affair. Under a shaded ramada, a few children and adults were making sun prints with fresh-picked flowers and leaves. Others ate watermelon slices, tossing the rinds into the nearby compost bed. Three little dogs tussled in the dirt.
A Viowin Wuv Affair
by Claudette Sutton • Tumbleweeds
Jul 16, 2009
Strong, lively violin notes drifted through the crowds at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum at their 20th birthday party in June. Since this was Bach and not “Go Tell Aunt Rhodie,” I had to do a double-take on the young musician: a boy barely big enough to describe as a wisp of a thing.
