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GIANNANGELO FARMS SOUTHWEST AVANT-GARDENING: CREATIVE ORGANIC GARDENING

VIRTUAL PHOTO TOUR IV Building a Hogan - The New Gardens - Building a Kiva Firepit “Until you have built a home of your own, you can never imagine the struggles or rewards involved in such a process.”

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Hogans In New Mexico, traditional Navajo Hogans are male or female. A male Hogan is smaller, has six sides, and is used for ceremonies and purification, while a female Hogan has eight sides and is where the family lives and is nurtured. The door of a Hogan faces east to meet the rising sun. Our Hogan has eight sides, with the east door centered to meet the rising sun at spring and fall equinox. There are large windows on all eight sides to take in the expansive views. The Beginning “We will not know unless we begin” Peter Nivio Zarlenga    The Building Site                                    Starting the Foundation           Floor Stringers and Joists                                Framing the Walls            More Wall Framing                                       Framing the Clerestory         Clerestory Interior View                                   Outside Walls Framed                  Inside Framing and Fireplace               Bathroom, Storeroom & Bedroom Walls           Entry and Insulation                                    Sheetrock in Living Room            Dining and Entry Niche                                         Building the Fireplace           Fireplace and Back Walls                                   Northside Windows           Fireplace Painted                                      Fireplace Kitty Tile                  Kitchen South Side                            The First Fire and Painted Poles           Finished Entry and Floors                                      Kitchen Cabnets            Bathroom Cabnets                                       Bathroom Finished           Office & Laundry Doors                                      Kitchen Cabnets                     Kitchen Finished                                        Kitchen and Dining Area           Finished Fireplace Area                                             Pole Corbel         Fireplace Screen

The Outside “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” Newt Gingrich Tar Paper                                             Cement Coat                  Stucco Coat                                             Porch and Deck Started          Landbridge Entry                                Lower Deck Beginning              View From the Porch                                    New Mexico Prayer Flags

The New Gardens “You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.” Native American Wisdom    Garden View East                                         Rock Garden           Trinket Garden                                       Perennial Garden          Herbs and Perennials                                      Red Oak Tree            Garden Gate                                                Coyote Fence & View North              Rhubarb Garden                                          Gardens and Coyote Fence            Plants on the Porch                                Greenzbox Spring Planting         Greenzbox in September                                   Temporary Bird Bath        The Fish Pond                                        Retaining Wall          Fish Pond                                                   Chipmunk Rocks          Newly Planted Garden                                  Rock Squirrel          Bird Feeders                               New Mexico Wild Aster         Happy Little Chipmunk “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” Robert A. Heinlein

Building a Kiva Firepit "Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Ghandi    Digging the Hole                                         Cementing Rocks           Setting the Steps                                         Finished Steps           Finished Entrance to Firepit                                         Finished Firepit

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