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High Desert Botanicals
Crafted in Northern New Mexico

Persimmon Moon Farm

Botanicals grown, gathered, and crafted beneath the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

We hand make small batch soaps, herbal goods, incense, and drink botanicals inspired by the high desert landscape. Crafted slowly on our small farm in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico.

Farm Journal

The Agricultural Roots of Taos, New Mexico

Long before Taos became an art town, it was a farming valley. Sheep trails crossed the mesas, acequias carried mountain water to fields, and wagon roads descended into the Rio Grande Gorge near Arroyo Hondo.

Making Incense on a Cold Winter Day

Piñon smoke, winter stillness, and Raven at the gate. Inside the making of the first Ember & Bone incense.

Bluebird Grace: A Story of Love, Loss, and Life on the Farm

They returned just as they did the year before—this little pair of bluebirds, bright flashes of sky darting through t...

Farm Values

Restore Balance

Every decision made on the farm prioritizes restoring and caring for our soils and surrounding ecosystem first. 

We are trying to farm in a way that is in harmony with nature.

Compost supports soil microbiology, helping us grow healthy plants without the addition of harsh herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers.

We only use ecological methods like applying compost, cover crops, organic fertilizer, and minerals to feed the soil that in turn feeds the plants.

Conserve Water

Conserve water for the precious resource it is in the southwest high-desert climate.

Capture and keep it in the soil, using techniques to concentrate a slow release of water, and selecting plants with low water needs, that are native and draught tolerant.

Utilizing keyline design and plowing based on a set of principles and techniques that works with the natural land contour patterns to restore and increase the depth and fertility of the soil, while increasing its water holding capacity.

Build Soil

Healthy living soil is the base for everything else. We build soil using cover crops and waste from the farm to create organic, biological compost which acts as a natural fertilizer that improves water usage, reduces erosion, and supports healthier crops.

Keep the soil covered, keep a living root in the ground year-round, this also helps keep the soil biology happy, moisture in the ground and reduces erosion.

No chemical fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides are ever used. 

Reduce Waste

Work to build a regenerative loop, where waste in one area of the farm produces feed, fuel, ingredients, or nutrients for another.

Minimize packaging materials, choose paper over plastic, natural non-toxic dyes and inks, utilize recycled materials that are biodegradable.

We also work with local sources to divert waste (plant, tree trimmings, leaves, wood chips, compost materials, coffee grinds, etc.), that would otherwise be dumped or burned.

Compost, recycle, reduce, reuse. 

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