1967 – New Buffalo Commune founded, “Summer Of Love” and “Back To The Land” movement
1968 – Main building burns and is rebuilt with family rooms
1969 – West and south adobes added
1969 – Film Easy Rider (based on New Buffalo) released
1971 – Arty Kopecky arrives, 1975-80 functions as dairy with local routes
1982 – Commune ceases, Rick Klein assumes ownership
1985 – John Kimmey begins venture raising native seeds
1988 – Chamisa Mesa alternative high school begins
1990 – New Buffalo Bed and Breakfast established, called by the LA Times “the ‘Far Out Inn’”
2003 – Purchased by private owner to preserve, restore and make sustainable
2004 – Library re-roofed and remodeled
2005 – Office and mud room built
2006 – Shop and apartment built
2007 – Well house rebuilt and roofed
2008 – Systematic renovation of main building begins, including removing adobe roof room-by-room, re-roofing, installing active solar in one wall of each bedroom and floor of center room, adding E and W wing sunrooms, raising walls and adding clearstory to kitchen, and finally rebuilding the massive buffalo room including addition of a one ton Finnish masonry fireplace and insulating walls, ceilings, and perimeters to R 60, 20, and 10 respectively
2009 – First chicken house built and egg production begins
2010 – 2300 kw grid-tied solar added
2011 – Farming resumes in earnest, establishing south and north gardens and initiating local farmers’ market, book New Buffalo released by UNM Press
2012 – North herb garden and arbor begun, Mayan labyrinth and pyramid built as celebratory grounds
2013 – Book Leaving New Buffalo released by UNM Press
2015 – Sheep barn built and four dairy sheep initiate herd, west pastures fenced, decision made to pass New Buffalo on to younger hands