First sign of winter here on Taos West Mesa.

#winteriscoming #Taos #NewMexico #offgrid #homestead

Spotted this tent in Taos's Kit Carson Park. 😢

Rumor says Santa Fe & ABQ started bussing their homeless here. True or not, cities have played hot potato with the homeless for decades.

Taos is small, few services. 😔

Seeing more homeless where you live?

#NewMexico #Taos #homelessness #socialissues

These onions walk! 👣

Walking onions grow little bulbettes on top that bend over, root, and start new plants—wandering across the garden over the years. They're perennials, too!

#perennialvegetables #offgridliving #homesteading #selfreliance #permaculture

Flat tires: the off-road tax.

This was yesterday, on a forest road halfway up the mountain in Valle Escondido, NM. Tired of the tax, TBH.

Not as bad as when I got stuck on a desert sand dune for three days!

Story: tinyurl.com/oakie-stuck, or link in profile.

#OffGridLiving #FlatTire #Storytime

Taos Land Trust and friends have birthed a brand-new horno at Rio Fernando Park.

Other day, I thought the Redi-Wall was stuffed with bubble wrap. Nope. Just a bubble-wrap toupee over every kind of plastic trash you can imagine.

#Taos #PizzaOvenGoals #WhatsInTheWall

Cool map of New Mexico’s pueblos.
1️⃣ Names shown are Spanish or Spanish-ized. Acoma call themselves ʔáák’u (Western Keresan), Hakukya (Zuni), Haak’oh (Navajo).
2️⃣ Not one culture—4 language families: Keresan, Tanoan, Zuni, Uto-Aztecan.

#NewMexico #PuebloHistory #IndigenousVoices #Southwest

At Rio Fernando Park in Taos: a traditional adobe horno (outdoor oven, under construction) surrounded by Redi-Walls made of steel gabions and recycled bubble wrap.

Volunteers are finishing just in time for a pizza cookout this Tuesday (Aug 12).

Video's on Instagram: instagram.com/reel/DNELcTTKbIC

My little potato patch is finally dying back—just as expected. Harvest time!

Mostly growing sunchokes this year, though. Better survival crop where I'm at. Wrote a Substack article about why.
👉 tinyurl.com/oakie-sunchokes

#gardening #sunchokes #offgrid #oakiemcdoakie

I once got stuck for three days on a desert sand dune. No passersby. No tow truck willing to help. No idea if I’d save the van. (Spoiler: I lived!)

“Stuck in a Hole Where No Tow Truck Goes”
oakiemcdoakie.substack.com/p/stuck-in-a...

—Oakie McDoakie, #OakieMcDoakie

#Vanlife #NewMexico #Storytime