Mora County

So what do you do on a ranch? It must be really boring way out there in the middle of nowhere. I don’t think this old ranch fits the definition of boring in any way.

For example, in the span of one midweek afternoon here (the first week of October) our ranch yard was busy. Now yards in ranches need to be utilized for whatever comes along.

Son John was baling hay way out there in our big meadow when the shear bolts broke on the baler, and this bent some major working parts of the machine, way in the impossible bowels of this mechanical wonder.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Tuesday
5:30 p.m. — Mora Rangerette volleyball vs. Peñasco, away, junior varsity and varsity
Wednesday
6:30 p.m. — Mora 4-H meeting, Helping Hands Inc.
Thursday
5:30 p.m. — Mora Rangerette volleyball vs. Pecos, home, junior varsity and varsity   
Friday
2 p.m. to 8 p.m. — Mora Community Leadership Institute, Mora Independent School Board Room
Saturday
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Continuation of Mora Community Leadership Institute

Farmers in Mora Valley are working together to encourage one another to improve their ability to raise healthy locally grown food.

Agriculture has deep roots in Mora Valley and the surrounding communities. Many families in the valley continue to raise gardens.

One family in Encinal is supporting the effort to “grow more farmers” by offering their ranch as a demonstration site.

Johnny and Peggy Boney and neighbor, Mabel Medina, are helping provide a place so that local farmers can learn by example.

Happiness is having what we call “always friends” come by, come back for a visit. Such was the case recently when our long- ago neighbors showed up to talk about our fun old times here when they lived just up the road from or ranch headquarters.