LAS CRUCES -- Homeowners can learn the basics of passive solar home design during a two-hour seminar Mar. 26 in Raton.

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LAS CRUCES -- Dona Ana County Extension Homemakers Council is going a little nutty to raise money for scholarships.

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LAS CRUCES -- A video conference on applying biosolids (sludge) to agricultural soil will be conducted April 9 at two sites in New Mexico.

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LAS CRUCES -- Karen Reyer, a livestock education specialist at the New Mexico Girls' Ranch, fills her days tending a menagerie of horses, llamas, chickens and rabbits at the ranch. She was recognized for her service and received New Mexico's 4-H Tribute to Volunteer Excellence Award during the Western Region 4-H Leader's Forum, Mar. 16 in Idaho.

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LAS CRUCES -- It sounds like a rancher's nightmare. Corralling range cattle every other day and taking two hours to feed them supplements individually. Or, having to split up cattle that all get the same supplement on several different pastures. These are just two of the strange, time- consuming ranching practices that scientists with New Mexico State University's Agricultural Experiment Station must put up with in order to get good research information.

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LAS CRUCES -- Not all college students see spring break as a chance to hit the beach or the slopes for a little relaxation. Scott Martinico saw it as a chance to open children's minds to the world of insects.

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LAS CRUCES -- Brenda Bishop, of Quay County, agrees with the African proverb that it takes a village to raise a child.

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LOS LUNAS -- Bare cottonwood poles and peculiar-looking pinon seedlings are beautiful to researchers at New Mexico State University's Agricultural Science Center at Los Lunas.

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LAS CRUCES -- James Fowler, a professor of agronomy and horticulture at New Mexico State University, took over this month as superintendent of both the Fabian Garcia Research Center and the Leyendecker Plant Science Center in Las Cruces.

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LAS CRUCES -- Colorado potato beetles living in test plots in Michigan don't know they're eating potato plants genetically engineered in the Mesilla Valley. All they know is they don't like them.

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LAS CRUCES -- If Doña Ana County's residents could consume all the milk produced by the county's cows, each of the more than 150,000 men, women and children would have to drink 1.4 gallons of milk every day, said a New Mexico State University agriculture agent. That's a lot of milk and cookies.

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LAS CRUCES -- In the irrigated Mesilla Valley surrounded by desert, Doña Ana County leads New Mexico with 19,500 acres of cotton, 18,000 acres of pecans, and 8,200 acres of chile. Not bad for an area that receives only five to eight inches of rain each year.

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LAS CRUCES -- Are you considering buying a new home? Will you be able to make the monthly payments? What type of mortgage is best for you? Interested home buyers can get answers to these and other questions by attending a home ownership program May 4 in Deming.

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LAS CRUCES -- More than 100 years ago, the university community mourned the untimely death of Samuel Steel, the son of a prominent Mesilla Valley family. Steel would have been the first graduate of New Mexico A&M, now New Mexico State University.

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LAS CRUCES -- Jennifer McCollum, an Oregon native and graduate of Fairfield High School in Boulder, Colo., received the Outstanding Student in Home Economics Award from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at New Mexico State University in an Apr. 18 ceremony.

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LAS CRUCES -- Donita Massey, a 1991 graduate of Dora High School, received the Outstanding Student in Agriculture Award from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at New Mexico State University in an Apr. 18 ceremony.

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LAS CRUCES -- Finding out more about 4-H, the nation's largest youth organization, is now as easy as making a toll-free call in New Mexico.

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LAS CRUCES -- Rolling, rolling, rolling. That tumbleweed keeps rolling, along.

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LAS CRUCES -- Emma Jean Cervantes, a La Mesa chile grower and processor, and Rob Cox, a local rancher, received awards from New Mexico State University's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Apr. 18, during the college's annual Awards Day ceremony.

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LAS CRUCES -- Graduates earning their degrees in agriculture and home economics have something to cheer about besides spring commencement: a surplus of jobs in their fields.

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