Sunflower

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Developing Our Land.
Sand and Clay. Odd mix but we're adjusting and amending our soils to support more sustainable growth. These first two years have been all about trying different things out and getting to know our land.

Hog Farm Hippie Bus

"Oh God, you'd really have to read about it. A bunch of these people sort of bailed and came out here to New Mexico and had a commune here. This was one of the famous 'hippie buses'.

You know there was a big hippie bus caravan. It went all over the place. Wound up in Haight-Ashbury and then some of them came out here.

It's really painted up, isn't it? What was Ram Dass's name before he was Ram Dass? (The question went unanswered.)

Oxygen Nichols

In this video Oxygen Nichols just talks about the bus, but the bus isn't in the video. To see the bus video, click here. "It's our Hog Farm bus. It's the Road Hog. And we traveled around the country in it. Andi it went to Woodstock and, you know... We had 'the great bus race' with Kesey's bus in Aspen Meadows, so it's kind of a famous bus back in its hay-day and really beautiful and running and everything. We had a fire in it at one point and then we were trying to get it fixed up in 1970 to take it back on the road. And we didn't get the one part that we needed to make it to the summer solstice. So from then on it just sat..."

Fire Near Taos Pueblo

Melody Romancito: "I strung together some photography by my husband, Rick Romancito. After seeing so many videos of our area by tourists, I thought it was time to represent. The credits aren't that readable inthe web version, so here they are: Video by mromancito, photography by Rick Romancito, original music, "Perfect Love," from "Down at the MeloMar Lounge" by Melody Romancito."

"Among many native people, the creation of art isn’t necessarily assigned a special role. Just as ancient people never thought to create a name for themselves other than a term usually translated to mean “the people,” art was and continues to be regarded as part of the spiraling cycles that constitute their role in the natural process. In my painting, I have chosen to honor the private nature of tribal spiritual beliefs because I don’t want to be part of the erosion of the values they continue to hold for the fully initiated. There is an emotional component, though, which cannot be ignored. My paintings are infused with this response. No explicit images, just the rawness of being witness to something vividly tenacious and yet delicate in its vulnerability to the effect of outside forces." - Rick Romancito