Southwest Desert Farming

A celebration of seasonal eating

A celebration of seasonal eating.

We grow open-pollinated vegetable varieties that are well-adapted to our central New Mexico climate, ensuring superior nutrition and flavor.

We are dedicated to healthy soil, healthy food, healthy people, and a healthy planet.

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Easiest Indoor Seed Starting
by Amelia Vogel
31st January 2024
FEBRUARY: MARCH: APRIL: MAY (all of these can be directly sown once the soil reaches 60F…they grow quickly): JUNE: —NO SEED STARTING IN JULY AND AUGUST, IT’S TOO DANG HOT— SEPTEMBER: OCTOBER:

Get in touch

Address:

Rocket Punch Farm LLC
14 Gonzales Road
Belen, New Mexico 87002

Contact:

(505) 302-5657
info@rocketpunchfarm.com

Hours:

By appointment only. Please give a call ahead to check availability.

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A regenerative micro farm growing seasonal vegetables, herbs, and berries. Find our products exclusively at the Farm To You By Bomvida stores in NM.

We've got what you need for this chilly, rainy day

We've got what you need for this chilly, rainy day (and possibly snowy end of the week): PO-TA-TOES!

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

Also just delivered to @bomvidafarm in Belen: TO-MA-TOES! Large colorful beefsteaks, pink and red slicers, and some Roma-types.

Green tomato fans: head over to @bomvidafarm. Wha

Green tomato fans: head over to @bomvidafarm.

What's your favorite green tomato recipe?

It is our great disappointment to announce there w

It is our great disappointment to announce there will be no purple sweet potatoes this season due to crop failure.

(Photo of a threeleaf sumac in our hedgerow in full autumn color.)

We just delivered the last hurrah of summer to @bo

We just delivered the last hurrah of summer to @bomvidafarm in Belen:

-tomatoes: beefsteak, slicers, and Romas
-Persian cucumbers
-pattypan squash
-Turkish chiles, jalapeños, and poblanos
-filet beans
-New Zealand spinach

Our greenhouse is now fully planted with winter lettuces that we hope to begin harvesting soon. As for next week, we'll have potatoes.

While many local farmers' markets are ending their

While many local farmers' markets are ending their seasons, @bomvidafarm remains open every day, all year round. At Rocket Punch Farm, we grow food all year round because we have this strange preference for eating food all year round. 🤣

What can you expect to see at Bomvida as the weather grows colder?

-Salad greens
-Microgreens
-Hardy cooking greens like kale, chard, and bok choy
-Root vegetables like carrots, radishes, turnips, and beets
-Long-storing crops like potatoes, sweet potatoes, winter squashes, onions, and garlic

Other local foods not shown here include mushrooms, dried beans, and preserved foods like salsas, sauces, jams, and jellies.

Meanwhile, the summer season isn't quite over yet. We at RPF expect to AT LEAST bring more tomatoes, cucumbers, pattypan squash, chiles, and green beans this Monday...before the first autumn frost arrives early Thursday morning.

Two of our six lettuce varieties that make up our

Two of our six lettuce varieties that make up our winter lettuce blend. Greenhouse planting starts now.

Cooler afternoon temperatures plus no autumn frost

Cooler afternoon temperatures plus no autumn frost yet in sight means the resurgence of tomatoes. We just delivered at least 5 different varieties to @bomvidafarm in Belen.

Also delivered: pattypan squash, Persian cucumbers, Turkish chile, poblanos, jalapeños, filet beans, and lemony sorrel greens.

Delivered today to @bomvidafarm in Belen: pattypan

Delivered today to @bomvidafarm in Belen: pattypan squash, cucumbers, filet beans, Turkish chile, poblanos, and jalapeños.

We hope to bring leafy greens next week, and depending on the weather, green tomatoes.

Waitaminute, that's not a potato! (We harvest fro

Waitaminute, that's not a potato!

(We harvest from the soil gently, using simple hand tools to minimize soil disturbance and to not harm native wildlife.)

Bad Amelia, do not promote the orange habaneros at

Bad Amelia, do not promote the orange habaneros at @bomvidafarm as "miniature Halloween pumpkins!"

🤣🤣🤣

We get just as excited about the veggies other loc

We get just as excited about the veggies other local farms grow as our own...and we love pickles. So when we saw baby turnips and beets at @bomvidafarm, we had to buy some.

This is "lift," pickled turnips dyed bright pink by the beets. They are tender-crisp, salty, sour, and a little spicy from the addition of red chile. We'll enjoy them for Sunday supper with lamb meatballs, roasted eggplant, and cucumber salad.

We posted a photo a week and a half ago of our tin

We posted a photo a week and a half ago of our tiny lettuce seedlings. Look how much they've grown!

Just delivered to @bomvidafarm in Belen: New Zeal

Just delivered to @bomvidafarm in Belen:

New Zealand spinach, Persian cucumbers, pattypan squash, Turkish chiles, jalapeños, poblanos, and several different kinds of tomatoes.

We expect summer harvests to continue for at least 2 more weeks, so load up while you can.

New batch of kimchi from all local vegetables. Pre

New batch of kimchi from all local vegetables. Pretty sure the napa cabbage and carrots came from the amazing San Isidro Farm, who sell their produce through @bomvidafarm

New item, just delivered to @bomvidafarm in Belen:

New item, just delivered to @bomvidafarm in Belen: blue collards. We've grown other collards in the past, but we fell in love with this iridescent blue-tinged heirloom from the Deep South.

Also delivered: pattypan squash, Persian cucumbers, Turkish chiles, poblanos, jalapeños, Romano beans, filet beans, and tomatoes.

The 2nd stage of our lettuce propagation is now co

The 2nd stage of our lettuce propagation is now complete, transplanting the germinated seedlings from flat trays into individual cells. Towards the end of October, these will be planted in our greenhouse. We'll harvest salads all winter long, delivering them exclusively to @bomvidafarm.

And because we've been breeding lettuces and improving them for the past 5 years, you literally cannot get this salad mix anywhere else. It is our love letter to Central NM.

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