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With recent temperatures boiling into the 90s, it’s hard to imagine that crops were freezing in northern New Mexico little more than a week ago.

But it’s true. And those heavy frosts may reduce shoppers’ choices at Santa Fe’s Farmers Market this summer, with fruit likely the hardest-hit, according to some vendors. Also, many vegetables will show up later in the season than usual.

“From what I’ve heard, people considered this to be a cold spring. It took a long time for the soil to warm up,” said Sarah Noss, executive director of the Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute. “It did have some...

Monday, June 23, 2008
by Jackie Jadrnak and Eddie Moore (Photographer) • Journal Santa Fe

When Rose Simpson pondered what could possibly link 25 artists from 16 countries with a multiplicity of cultures and languages, she thought of the line.

“What’s the simplest form of expression that absolutely everyone can understand?” she asked. “What is our common thread? Our common thread is the line. That line can tell everyone’s stories.”

Simpson, her great aunt Nora Naranjo Morse and her cousin Eliza Naranjo Morse are lifting, plastering and painting three-dimensional “lines” of clay at the Institute of American Indian Arts downtown, the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
by Kathaleen Roberts and Eddie Moore (Photographer) • Journal Santa Fe