Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
Sally Baker, co-owner of Genesis Gardens Homestead in Tucumcari, shows dead stems that once were the farm's green chile pepper plants. Grasshoppers have devastated it and other crops.
This is the time that local farmers begin to harvest green chile peppers, including Genesis Gardens Homestead, which attained the coveted New Mexico Certified Chile endorsement about three years ago.
But that won't happen this summer and fall at Gene...
