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just finished eating a perfectly ripe apricot that my just for the body alone, but that it had the capacity to apples, piñón and, of course, carne seca and quesos. By friend Levi gave me from a tree in his back yard. nourish spirit, mind and even memory. How could it mid-March, however, a bit tired of these staples, people And what an experience that was! When I bit into be otherwise when, not long ago—as certain as the sun turned their attention to picking chimajá, a variety of wild, it,I its soft, translucent orange flesh released a torrent rises each morning—people had been an integral part tasty celery that, when dried, added to the flavor of the of concentrated flavors and nutrients. I had forgotten of the local ecology, together with its fauna and flora, of indispensable frijoles de olla. If you loved chimajá, however, what a real apricot tastes like, as opposed to one of those which food-bearing plants were among the most valued? you had better be quick and observant, for that diminutive humongous, not quite ripe, often disappointing apricots plant was available in the foothills around places like that come from afar in 10-pack, hard-plastic boxes, selling Cuarteles and other lower-altitude communities for only for at least three bucks at local stores. Comida has the capacity a few days before completely vanishing.
Biting into that apricot also instantly provoked a stream of to nourish spirit, mind In mid-April, people directed their energies to harvesting thoughts, memories and even emotions. How was it that a single clusters of asparagus that grew along embankments of the juicy, homegrown fruit was able to spark such consciousness- and even memory. acequias and beneath the ancient apple trees of our orchards. raising powers? Well, apricots have always been central to my In a world of locally produced food, the days, weeks, months For some reason, the sound of each stalk snapping at its base family’s farming life and our table. The fruit my friend gave me and years became memorable and significant, primarily in as my brothers and I picked them brought us unexpressed joy. not only tasted like the divine, succulent fruit it was, but also relation to the availability of certain foods. In northern New The delightful process of asparagus picking led to armloads like the New Mexican soil where it had been grown and the Mexico, a variety of foods poured forth from field, forest of thick, fresh spears that we took home to our adoring acequia water it had imbibed. To me, it also embodied the full and hillside, as well as from people’s cupboards, pantries mother. For a couple of weeks each year, the abundant supply flavor of summer, family and community, given that during my and dispensas or granaries if la gente had been wise enough became an almost daily staple, in contrast to the occasional youth my extended family and I used to pick vast quantities to put away the harvest when it was plentiful. Food and delicacy that the thin, store-bought variety is today. from the arboles de albarcoque at my aunt Genoveva Montoya’s its availability were among the most defining events of the home in El Jardín, near Chimayó. These had been among the yearly cycle, for in an age in which government assistance Other plants there for the picking included quelites or happiest of times. As if by magic, the indescribably sweet flavor barely existed, ensuring sustainable sources of nourishment wild spinach, huanemo (a northern Tiwa word for high- and special texture of that apricot effortlessly and convincingly dramatically increased one’s chances for survival. mountain spinach), wild onions, verdolagas or purslane and, transported me to that place and those times. of course, capulín or chokecherries. These required little In the depths of winter, people feasted upon the stored- effort to obtain but had the potential to enrich every meal. While eating the apricot I realized that comida was not up heaps of grains, peas, beans, chile, pumpkins, potatoes, CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
Verdolagas (purslane) – wild greens Chicos to be roasted in an horno Freshly picked sweet peas in the spring www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • October 2017 7 Nourishment in Every Form continued from page 7 Each was gathered with great care and rapid-fire succession. Delectable green enthusiasm and subsequently processed, squash always coincided with the ripening usually by women and children. of corn so as to facilitate the preparation of what is perhaps northern New Mexicans’ If people had been prudent enough to sow most preferred vegetable dish—maiz con sweet peas by late February, by mid-May calabacitas. Cucumbers and tomatoes, as well they would be enjoying freshly picked as green chile followed, only to be overtaken alverjón. In spite of the small size of the by waves of cabbage and root vegetables; and individual peas, people did not mind shelling in the department of sweet things, by tons of them for hours on end, for they harbored a ripening melons, watermelons and ever-so- A NEW SPACE sweetness and freshness that, after a long, juicy clusters of grapes hanging from arbors. hard winter of relying heavily on calditos, or soups, they yearned for. Besides, the Meanwhile, on the trees, the apples, pears FOR NEW ART conversations people had while shelling and plums had also begun to ripen, and for peas around the kitchen table were often as once, the ranchero was at a complete loss as to delicious as the peas themselves. what to pick first. When all had finally been harvested and put away for the winter, the It was not long after the alverjón peaked that people only needed to concern themselves real fruits in the form of cherries, apricots with two other of nature’s consumable and then peaches, by mid-July, adorned the products that arrived in the late fall—the tables of the average farmer. If he did not piñón nut and the flavorful te de cota or cota have these himself, he could easily barter or tea. While it was easy to gather te de cota, wait until a good friend or neighbor chanced twist a handful of its long stalks into a figure to come by with a bagful. Soon thereafter, eight and let it dry for future use, picking the earth busied herself unleashing virtual piñón was no picnic, although it might OPENING OCT 6-8, 2017 rivers of cucumbers, string- and faba beans, involve one. The pursuit of the minuscule onions, and best of all, maíz. El maíz was an nut usually involved a family outing and a indispensable crop that could be put away foray into the labyrinthine piñón forests of Santa Fe’s premier contemporary art museum, SITE Santa Fe, inaugurates for the winter in large northern New Mexico. its new home with a thought-provoking and timely exhibition: quantities in various Food and its Families almost always forms that ranged from took with them storage posole or hominy to availability were containers, blankets dried, parched corn, on which to sit while commonly called chicos, among the most gathering the nuts, and Doug Aitken Patrick Bernatchez Andreas Gursky from the Mexican- tarps intended to catch Lynn Hershman Leeson Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Spanish word chicales. defining events the piñón and the cones Dario Robleto Alexis Rockman Tom Sachs when the trees were While growing up, I of the yearly cycle. vigorously shaken. Regina Silveira Andrea Zittel found it curious that whenever a particular These internationally-known artists explore the profound impact of technological fruit or food came into season, one tended The sometimes epic process, which could acceleration, social upheaval, and structural change on contemporary life. to ignore all other foods in favor of that include the breakdown of a pickup truck particular one, which we had not eaten or the inadvertent “leaving behind” of an in nearly a year. It was significant that unsuspecting, distracted family member, THE REVEAL: OPENING FÊTE & LATE NIGHT PARTY during the time of the ripening of cherries usually took place during October and or sweet corn, for example, one yearned November, before the snows arrived. Friday, Oct 6, 6 pm until midnight for nothing more than for large doses of When snow did arrive, it usually found the Tickets $20 and up these foods. They were obviously loaded families (intact), seated around the warmth Tour the new SITE Santa Fe and preview the exhibitions with the very vitamins, minerals, or trace of a fogón or wood-burning stove, cracking FUTURE SHOCK & Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art elements that the body most craved, and freshly roasted piñón with their back teeth Enjoy special appearance and performance by Supaman who fuses singing, in quantities that it could assimilate and while telling intriguing stories in the native rapping, DJing and fancy dance | Food, libations & more store. The practice of eating but one kind mexicano speech of the region. of food when in season seemed to result in The Reveal is a 21 and over party. the dramatic refortification of bodily tissues, Among the most persistent of these stories an increase in chi or the life-force, together were those of how previous generations COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE DAYS with the strengthening of the immune of antepasados or ancestors had managed system. 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8 Green Fire Times • October 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com FERTILIZING the FUTURE of ACEQUIA FARMERS Los Sembradores Farmer Training Program For many New Mexico farmers, working the land is a sacred eating, value-added products, leadership development and of Chimayó, and Shane Tolbert, an Abiquiú resident. duty and tradition. Farmers are needed to irrigate the lands. The other topics were added to a 10-month, 3-day-a-week land can nourish families, but in order for farmers to be able to curriculum designed to teach season extension, the basics The ecological, spiritual and economic health of northern make a living at it, they must have access to lands that can be needed to launch a successful market garden, as well as New Mexico’s rural, agricultural communities depends cultivated. When fields are left fallow too long, the owners risk marketing techniques. on passing on the skills it takes to be a farmer, listening losing their water rights. With these things in mind, in 2017 to the land, working in community and problem solving, the New Mexico Acequia Association (NMAA) took over Donne Gonzales is NMAA’s farmer trainer and manager. along with blood, sweat and tears. NMAA’s farmer training administration of the Farmer Training Program, which had Gonzales is a 10-year participant of Sembrando Semillas, program is creating a community of learners who are gaining been initiated and run by the New Mexico American Friends NMAA’s intergenerational traditional agriculture program, the confidence to pursue their dreams and inspire others Service Committee (AFSC). and also a graduate of AFSC’s Farmer Training Program. to farm and garden. To apply for the 2018 training or to In 2017, NMAA’s current program has three apprentices: make a donation to support the program, call 505.995.9644 The NMAA started by moving the training site to Chamisal, Nicanor Ortega of Arroyo Hondo (north of Taos), who is or email [email protected]. The NMAA’s on the Acequia del Monte. Community meals, healthy also a Sembrando Semillas participant; Matthew Encinias website is: www.lasacequias.org ■
Bean field on Nicanor Ortega’s family’s land in Arroyo Hondo, Taos County, NM LA COSECHA de los SEMBRADORES Harvest of the Seed Sowers Nicanor Ortega his year, Los Sembradores farm power tools. Driving self-tapping screws I want to farm my acequia land full- apprenticeship has been a great into metal is no joke! time and contribute by helping support experience. I have learned so the children of our community. With muchT about farming and what I want to This apprenticeship has been challenging, the life-skills and mentorship I gained do with the knowledge I now carry. It has but I have gained a solid platform for this year, I am ready for my next been a blessing to be at Chicoyole Farm how to farm sustainably and work in step. I have a better in Chamisal. What I like about Chicoyole community. We have covered many topics outlook on how farm is working and learning with La and have had opportunities to really get I can accomplish Familia Gonzales y García, y los vecinos our hands and boots dirty. These areas of my goals. This year de Chamisal. Together we have enjoyed study and practice will definitely help my north of Taos, in our days and every unique insight. The farm prosper. Arroyo Hondo, laughter we have shared has been very with la Acequia therapeutic for me. With care and respect, Look at all this apprenticeship has to offer Atalaya, I was also la familia Gonzales y García y los vecinos a beginner farmer: We learned different able to cultivate de Chamisal have overcome the challenges acequia systems and even cleaned La my own property. I September potato of building a farm. Acequia del Monte en Chamisal “Vuelta!” was blessed with an harvest, Chamisal, NM. We put together and came to understand arvejón (peas) crop L-R: Nicanor Ortega, Matthew Encinias, Shane I couldn’t have asked for better mentors drip-system irrigation. We rototilled the that was financially Tolbert and Eduardo and consejo (advice) to help me grow into ground and prepared it with new and old rewarding. © Seth Roffman (3) Gonzales the acequiero y sembrador (acequia farmer tools such as el cabador (hoe), finger hoe and and seed sower) that I want to be. On any hula hoe. We were able to do early season With all the knowledge passed down water, people and traditions). day you could count on someone visiting, planting where cucumbers, tomatoes and through New Mexico Acequia Association helping, or offering professional advice. We melons were started. Planting, pest control farmer training apprenticeship, I look ¡Qué viva las acequias y que viva el amor sobre ■ built a 48-by-106-ft. high-tunnel hoop– and weeding made up a lot of our daily forward to the years to come, farming my nosotros. Qué Dios te bendiga! house from the ground up. This took a lot work. It was very rewarding to be able land and developing an opportunity para of hard work, sweat and pounding of 20 to harvest and prepare the products for nuestra juventud (for our youth). Thank Nicanor Ortega is a farmer apprentice 5-ft. posts into the ground. We gained skills wholesale markets. you all for the support and interest in with the New Mexico Acequia Association. in working with a variety of hand- and nuestra agua, gente y tradiciones (our www.lasacequias.org www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • October 2017 9 Time to prepare for winter.
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esiding on Diné bíké’é (the Deeshgiizhinii nishłį, To’aheedliinii bashishchiin, Táchii’nii schools and reaching as many students as Navajo Nation) in a rural town dashicheii, Tł’ááshchí’í dashinalí. Ákót’éego diné asdzáán nishłį. possible. That’s why I decided to serve with of 800 people, I did not grow up FoodCorp, (2014-2015) in New Mexico. eatingR healthy on a daily basis. It never As a service member I was able to connect crossed my mind that my family had with the youth through traditional foods to travel over 100 miles to the nearest and storytelling and have my own children grocery store or how expensive fresh listen, learn and lead. It amazes me that no produce was and is to the present day. two students have the same story, and I’m even more inspired that, even though our However, I clearly remember shínalí food system has changed tremendously, asdzáá (my father’s mother), my siblings it connects the youth back to their roots. and I would walk down a path to her field and pick wild red sumac berries. Shínalí Just as I learned from my grandmothers, asdzáá distinguished between what part now in the role as third year Fellow (2015- was edible and what should be left to 2018) for New Mexico, I am part of a team continue growing. These berries were rich that is working towards ensuring the strides in nutrients and fed the soul. we are making in schools and communities will be long-lasting. As a cohort we are Connecting with building our program for staying power so that these lessons and traditions will be the youth through there for years to come. traditional foods and FoodCorps FoodCorps is the leading national service storytelling Kids harvesting lettuce at La Semilla Food Center, Anthony, New Mexico organization working to provide a healthier Another story I recall is shímásání (my future for our nation’s children. Our mother’s mother), at the age of eight, did she know—she would harvest several a good healthy life and healthy bodies. AmeriCorps leaders transform schools came across a single potato and, not pounds of potatoes. into places where all students—regardless realizing what was going to happen, cut I am not only a Diné woman, relative, or of class, race or geography—learn what it into fours and planted it in the soil. For every plant that was used, my friend but also a mother to two beautiful healthy food is, fall in love with it and eat She watered the potato, nourished it, and grandmothers always offered prayers so boys. As a mother, I’m passing down those it every day. Building on this foundation of a few weeks later she began to see the the plants could be replenished. For every teachings to my two sons because they’re direct impact, FoodCorps develops leaders, potato sprout. In September, shímásání meal prepared a prayer is offered, so we my legacy. Educating my own children forges networks and pursues policy reforms harvested those four potatoes and—little as five-finger beings can be blessed with was the first step; next was partnering with CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
and Red Willow’s youth programs. The RED WILLOW CENTER’S keynote speaker is acclaimed artist and 1ST ANNUAL INDIGENOUS FOODS EXPERIENCE author Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara October 19–21, Taos Pueblo and Taos, New Mexico Pueblo), who will discuss her Pueblo Food Experience project. The Red Willow Center is a 501(c)3 director. “Food as sustenance is no longer a nonprofit organization working to viable consideration in our communities. Non-tribal members revitalize the agricultural heritage of The result is evident in rampant obesity and may attend days one Taos Pueblo. The center, which bridges diet-related illnesses.” and two for $45 each traditional Native knowledge and practices day, to be paid in with the sustainability/self-reliance The first day will include a tour of Taos advance. The tasting- movement, includes a demonstration farm Pueblo. The chefs will prepare a locally luncheon on Oct. and farmers’ market. It offers educational sourced, traditional foods luncheon for 21 costs $15. The
opportunities for the pueblo community in the Taos Pueblo Day School children. fundraising dinner is Center Courtesy Red Willow health through nutrition, cooking, farming On the second day, there will be a tour of $75 (only in advance). Top: Squash and grassroots economic development. Red Willow Farm, and then a “Cooking The luncheon and grown at Red with Community” event where the chefs dinner will take place Willow Farm at The center is presenting a 3-day Indigenous and the audience will participate in a at the Farmhouse Taos Pueblo Foods Experience (Oct. 19–21) that will bring discussion about food safety, systems, Café in Taos. together well-known chefs Karlos Baca of justice and sovereignty in Native American Tickets are available A Taste of Native Cuisine, and Brian Yazzie communities. This will culminate in a through the Red of the Sioux Chef Network, along with community meal. Day three will feature Willow Center or the Melons grown at local Native chefs, such as Taos Pueblo’s a local and wildcrafted foods-tasting Farmhouse Café. For Tesuque Pueblo, Henrietta Lujan, to cook and discuss luncheon, from 12 to 3 p.m. prepared by more information, call for sale in front cultural and systemic issues related to food. the chefs and culinary students. From 6 to 575.779.7020 or email of the Museum “We often forget the importance of food,” 8 p.m. there will be a fundraising dinner redwillowfarm15@ of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe said Addelina Lucero, the center’s executive to support farm-to-school programs gmail.com © Seth Roffman www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • October 2017 11 Staying Power: FoodCorps New Mexico continued from page 11 that in time have the impactful and meaningful. Schools and potential to improve school districts are where daily farm- all of our nation’s to-school programming takes place and 100,000 schools. where real change occurs. The school setting is where the program model State Partners of knowledge, engagement and access The FoodCorps-New is facilitated every day to improve Mexico program is the overall health of the children and co-hosted by Farm to communities we serve across the state Table-NM and the of New Mexico. University of New Recruiting Local Leaders Mexico Community Engagement Center. We seek to avoid the “parachute problem” Both are nonprofit of bringing in outsiders who tell educational traditionally marginalized communities Black Mesa Water Coalition collaboration with FoodCorps on the Navajo Nation organizations working collaboratively to what to do. Accordingly, FoodCorps manage and direct the state FoodCorps service members are placed under the program. The UNM Community direction of local partners, and we strive Engagement Center brings civic to recruit service members with a strong ROOTED IN LOVE: engagement, anti-racism and anti- understanding of the local context. We A FILM, A FARMER, A MOVEMENT oppression trainings, and root-cause know that local leaders are the best fit analysis perspectives to the forefront for farm-to-school programs in New “Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn.” of our programming. Mexico, and we will — Benjamin Franklin Since 1997, the CEC continue to foster a has been managing FoodCorps state programmatic Two women with big visions for their community have created an inspiring short the largest campus- structure that is film. Rooted in Love, by Taos-based filmmaker Jody McNicholas (Longshotsville, based AmeriCorps develops leaders, welcoming, relevant A Wave of Compassion) takes viewers on an eye-opening day in the life of Micah program in the and meaningful to Roseberry, a well- Southwest. Farm to forges networks local applicants. known northern New Table promotes locally Mexico advocate for and pursues Professional based agriculture regional agricultural Development sustainability. through education, policy reforms. community outreach FoodCorps-NM state Taos County can be and networking, providing a balanced partners and service site supervisors both abundant and state vision that equally weighs social provide ongoing training and harsh. Roseberry justice with hands-on technical skills. professional development for service has spent more members to increase their capacity to than three decades State Collaborators build, tend school gardens and teach developing both soil The FoodCorps-NM network is garden-based curricula in ways that are and relationships with Micah Roseberry with students in a Taos school garden comprised of school-based partners, culturally responsive, innovative and community members community-based organizations, based on local context. Professional in the region. She is a academic institutions and producers that development topics include: New farmer, owner of the Farmhouse Café (www.farmhousetaos.com) and founder of the Mexico history and context, asset Farm to School lunch program, which currently serves over 600 schoolchildren with strive to collaboratively improve their mapping, place-based learning, praxis, fresh, organic meals. Roseberry has also created on-site school gardens, which offer local and regional food system economies students hands-on educational opportunities. “If children are given the opportunity through farm to school work. being an ally in Indigenous communities, to eat real food, grow real food and learn to take care of the earth and water, they begin storytelling from an Indigenous elder, to understand that they can make a difference,” she says. Our network has evolved strategically preparing traditional foods, service over the past six years and is grounded learning, social determinants of health, McNicholas’ camera follows the nonstop “Farmer Michah” from sunup to in community-based organizations as key social justice perspectives, root-cause sundown as she sows gardens, prepares and delivers organic school lunches, pieces of the puzzle. Community-based analysis, civic engagement, nutrition, helps kids make garden-grown kale chips in a solar oven and gives a classroom partners host the service members for water issues, procurement and cafeteria talk about the importance of bees and butterflies. As the sun sets, shadowed by ■ their year of service, playing the pivotal tastings. the majestic Taos Mountain, Roseberry ends her day with a contemplative stroll role of supervising, providing guidance through the Farmhouse’s Café’s garden. “Sometimes I’m feeling that what I’m Leiloni Begaye’s email working on is going against all odds. I really want to see all these programs move and fostering a working relationship forward, not only here in Taos but all over the country,” she said. between the service member, the state address is: leiloni. partner team, school based partners and [email protected]. The Rooted in Love has been an official selection in a number of film festivals. It premiered students. They also allow FoodCorps Community Engagement at the Farm Film Festival 2017 in Favara, Italy. In September it was screened at programming that’s rooted in changing Center at the University the Gallup Film Festival and San Francisco’s Food and Farm Film Festival. On school landscapes to connect to wider of New Mexico’s website Oct. 6, it will be shown at the Awareness Film Festival in Los Angeles. For more community issues like food justice, is: communityengagement information, visit rootedinlovemovie.com community health, food security, farmer center.unm.edu. Farm to trainings, etc., making our presence more Table-NM’s website is: farmtotablenm.org
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lbuquerque Public Schools serve s school and how they decided to best utilize 84,000 students in 141 schools. The the garden space they have created. district’s schools—elementary to Ahigh school—currently have more than 80 The next event, a day-long summit, The APS gardens. When thinking about these large Gathering of the Gardens, is currently being numbers, it is important to understand that planned. It will feature keynote speakers, these school communities foster a student workshop tracks for teachers and community body which is uniquely filled with culture members based on experience and need, and traditions. The same is true about the demonstrations from community members gardens, which offer opportunities for and organizations, and art and projects engaged learning and physical activity while produced by students themselves. serving to help students understand how healthy food is grown. APS school gardens will continue to focus on capacity building through community One way the students’ interaction with involvement. Food security and food the food they eat is fueled through taste quality will continue to be important tests. Students are invited to try fruits and challenges to address for young people. vegetables that are culturally relevant to Outdoor classroom education, paired with where they live and that have historical Teachers attending a tree planting workshop the harvests of organically and community value in their communities. Connecting grown foods, will always be a focal point. students to their own history as well as community traditions, such as acequias, sharing food, recipes and cooking, elicits through gardening. The ongoing professional development positive food memories and helps students of teachers is also paramount. The make healthier decisions in their diet. Gardens are also a place of inclusion. district hopes to expand its community Refugee students learning English have partnerships, and with their support, The program teaches greatly excelled by having garden and continue to innovate and educate. ■ nutrition classes as a part of their ESL how growing food can education. Cultural exchange through Mallory García, a native Burqueño from agriculture has played an important role the South Valley, is a FoodCorps Service be empowering and in helping these young people feel more Member and the school gardens coordinator a part of their school communities while for Albuquerque Public Schools. She believes the importance of food also allowing them to share their identity, Lavaland Elementary School Garden Club food is medicine and that every garden has the sustainability. heritage and way of life with others. planting greens potential to be a powerful outdoor classroom. APS school gardens provide students APS school gardens involve families opportunities to engage in agricultural and community partners, providing STATE OF OBESITY REPORT RELEASED practices and, on a small scale, to learn the opportunities for continuous learning, The Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have th responsibilities and the impacts of land shared resources and the love of food. A released the 14 annual State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America cultivation. “Students who have school study by Habib and Doherty (2000) showed report. The report highlights the ways that obesity—cited as a leading concern garden programs incorporated into their that “68 percent of the students shared what by 70 percent of county officials—affects all segments of the population and states that “obesity is a top national priority.” The report also details effective science curriculum score significantly they were learning with family and friends.” approaches to reducing obesity, particularly among children. higher on science standardized based assessments than students who are taught This year, APS proudly hosted its first The full 108-page report can be downloaded at www.stateofobesity.org. The by strictly traditional classroom methods” School Garden Crawl, which highlighted website also features categories from the report and graphic representations of (Klemmer, Waliczek, & Zajicek, 2005). two school gardens and one community many of the statistics. Highlights include a Fast Facts section and a summary of The garden program not only teaches the garden as a way of capacity building rates and trends. An interactive portion of the website allows visitors to click on technical side of farming but also how and professional development. Teachers, areas that identify policies in place on a state-by-state basis. New Mexico ranks growing food can be empowering, the parents, students, school board members 33rd in the nation for 2016 with a 28.3 percent adult obesity rate, which represents importance of food sustainability and the and others received information on how a stable rate between 2015 and 2016. vital connection between land and culture to grow and improve their gardens while in New Mexico. they networked and toured each unique The report also states, “After increasing steadily for decades, the national garden space. The Garden Crawls will childhood obesity rate has leveled off, but it is still alarmingly high compared to a generation ago.” Obesity is associated with increased health risks, and, as such, APS is currently collaborating with continue with a rotation of schools in costs our nation more than $150 billion in healthcare costs annually. CESOSS (Center for Social Sustainable different learning zones every nine weeks, Systems), the University of New Mexico to coincide with the changing seasons as One section of the report highlights key obesity-prevention policies, stating, and Bernalillo County Extension office in well as the grading periods. In this way, “A range of strategies can help support opportunities for healthy eating and developing a New Mexico School Garden teachers will be able to teach seasonality increased physical activity. They focus on making healthier choices easier in curriculum. The goal is to reconnect schools, and about sustainability. The event is also people’s daily lives.” students, and families with important local intended to celebrate the diversity of each www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • October 2017 15 THE MOST IMPORTANT WORD in “COMMUNITY GARDENING” is not ‘GARDENING!’ Mark Winne
ommunity gardening and urban I was asked to give this year’s keynote at the American Community independent of crowned-kings, money- agriculture play important roles in Gardening Association Conference in my old hometown of Hartford, kings, and land-kings.” promoting food security, healthy Connecticut. This is an excerpt from that speech. eatingC and a sustainable and equitable Fast forward to the present, and we see food food system. For those reasons, I’m going policy activity and community farming and to explore three myths that are part of the gardening going gangbusters. The Santa Fe community gardening conversation. City/County Food Policy, one of 250 such councils nationwide, worked with the City Myth Number One: Community gardening of Santa Fe to craft a cutting-edge urban- nurtures human tranquility and oneness agriculture zoning ordinance. with nature. Myth Number Two: urban gardens and farms will feed a hungry Cleveland’s food policy council played a world and create a slew of good-paying critical role in revamping that city’s zoning jobs. Myth Number Three: Gardeners and practices to support community gardening farmers exist in such a singular state of and the raising of chickens and bees. They purity that they can float above the political worked to provide financial support for fray and never engage with public policy. urban farms, and to change the city’s food procurement practices to give premium Let’s dispense with the first myth— pricing to food produced in the city. the supernatural power of community gardening to assuage the anxieties of Los Angeles added another dimension modern life. When I lived in Hartford, to municipal support for urban farming I was a member of a community garden with an ordinance that allows property that sat on the banks of a small river owners to lease their land to food growers and adjoined meadows that were home in return for tax benefits. The ordinance © Seth Roffman to cardinals, orioles and bluebirds. The Garden in Santa Fe County is designed to turn vacant pieces of land riverbanks were alive with muskrats, skunks into productive urban garden and farm and the occasional lettuce-eating deer. plots to produce food for surrounding the ages of 13 and 17 suffer from anxiety 3. Supports participants’ physical and neighborhoods. disorder. For adults, anxiety fuels marijuana psychosocial health Three myths that are purchases that are now a $6.7 billion 4. Supplements household food security My message boils down to this: industry. Those who voted for Trump did 5. Is associated with increased property • The most important word in part of the community so because they were anxious; those who values “community gardening” is “community.” did not are now extremely anxious. 6. Offers opportunities for skills • Work with other groups and interests, gardening conversation Now more than ever we need to reaffirm development, workforce training and recognizing that you are stronger But early one June, a gardener discovered the paradisiacal qualities of community supplemental income. together than you are alone. a large woodchuck had taken up residence gardens by slowing down to sniff the 7. Reduces obesity, crime and municipal • Engage government; the people and inside the garden and was munching zucchini blossoms, take a Zen walk along maintenance costs the policymakers must be on the same everything he could get his little paws on. garden paths, and savor the deliciousness page. This is what they call democracy. The men mobilized immediately. Three of the productions of the earth. Of course, skeptics abound. Spokespersons • If you don’t belong to a food policy volunteers located the furry interloper’s for “Big Agriculture” have turned their council, join one. points of access and egress and stood watch Myth Number Two: Community gardening noses up at so-called “utopian farmers” • Create a message that unifies your work with hoes and shovels at the ready. The and urban agriculture will feed a hungry whose holdings are so small they can barely and speaks to the proven benefits of leader, carrying a gasoline canister, found world and create lots of jobs. First, let’s be support a rototiller. But with a billion community gardening. the chuck’s main entrance and filled it clear about the causes of hunger and food of the globe’s people hungry, a billion • Poverty is the cause of hunger; we must with petrol. Yelling, “Fire in the hole!” he insecurity. They are poverty, which is itself undernourished and another billion obese, eliminate poverty to end income and dropped a full book of lit matches into the fueled by America’s enormous wealth—and conventional forms of agriculture have wealth inequality. ■ now saturated warren, sending a fireball 20 income disparities. Poverty won’t be altered by hardly earned bragging rights. feet into the air. The singed, but still agile community gardens or anything other than Mark Winne is the chuck darted for his life from one of his a radical restructuring of our tax code. But Let’s consider myth number three: co-chair of the Santa exits, only to be greeted by shovel-wielding that doesn’t mean that there aren’t benefits. Community gardeners don’t need to work Fe Food Policy gardeners who—plowshares now turned on public policy. Over 150 years ago, Council and senior into weapons—soon dispatched the poor My colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Abraham Lincoln, speaking in favor of advisor at the Johns fellow in a most unsavory manner. Center for a Livable Future looked closely the newly formed land grant university Hopkins Center for a at urban agriculture and found that it: system and the Department of Agriculture, Livable Future. His Man’s dominance over nature was restored, 1. Significantly increased social capital, said, “Our population [will] increase forthcoming book is and all tranquility came to a grinding halt. community well-being and civic [which makes] the most valuable of all Stand Together or A recent New York Times article stated that, engagement arts…the art of deriving a comfortable Starve Alone: Unity and Chaos in the U.S. “If you’re a human being living in 2017 and 2. Provides a number of ecosystem subsistence from the smallest area of soil. Food Movement. Website address for local you’re not anxious, there’s something wrong services to urban areas, (e.g. one pound No community whose every member community gardens and resources: https:// with you.” According to T, 36 percent of food production displaces two possesses this art can ever be the victim milagrocommunitygarden.wordpress.com/ of girls and 26 percent of boys between pounds of carbon) of oppression. Such a community will be community-garden-resources/
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Certified organic cattle ranch in the San eorge, my husband and business we do is about partnership. We’re partners We’ve lost much, when it comes to Luís Valley, Colorado partner, likes to start presentations with the cows, sun, grass and soil microbes; the infrastructure of a smaller-scale with the question, “How many of partners with the harriers that hunt our functional food system, from processing meals away from anarchy, meaning people will you are involved in agriculture?” Unless hay piles all winter and the eagles eating and distribution to vibrant rural economies. abide by the law until they are truly hungry. G The resulting system makes potatoes from It’s unwise to dismantle large stores when he’s speaking at a soil health or farming carcasses in the spring. We are partners conference, only one or two hands go up in with our customers. Idaho cheaper in New Mexico than those we haven’t the infrastructure to replace the the air. Then he asks, “How many of you eat?” grown 200 miles north in the San Luís efficient ways multitudes of people access their We need each other—consumers and Valley, a place whose climate, culture, food. For example, the dearth of processing If you eat, you are involved in agriculture. producers. We need to understand one geomorphology and water are intimately plants makes it all but impossible for our another’s challenges. Cranky ranchers must connected to the rest of the Río Grande ranch to feed our neighbors. Small processors The locavore “Know Your Food” revolution recognize that working parents haven’t time Valley watershed. were closed decades ago, as the consolidation grows strong and bouncy like a well-fed colt. to slow-cook a roast during the work week; of animal agriculture into a few mega- Yet, for all the interest in real and regional they need convenience, at least some of the A regional food system is vital to growers. The corporations resulted in USDA rules that cater food, most eaters still know little about the time. The weary urbanite needs to realize a grassfed beef world offers insight into how to large processors. Many rules have little to do challenges farmers and ranchers face. farmer toils endlessly and may still lose his dearly we ranchers need it. In this country, with humane slaughter, cleanliness, or zoning; or her crop to a hailstorm or to the more grassfed beef sales increased 40 percent from they focus on paperwork and a private office A resilient regional food system is all about insidious unpredictability of climate change. 2014 to 2015. Over 80 for a USDA inspector, partnership. One of the joys of an agrarian And they need to know that according to percent of total sales are A resilient regional space a small plant can’t life is the palpable partnership with the the USDA, on average, only 15.6 cents of imported beef. How provide. The honorable planet we experience every day. Everything each food dollar makes its way back to the can cattle raised in food system is all skills of turning all of farmer or rancher. Uruguay, barged to the an animal into food are U.S. and processed here about partnership. almost gone. Without Consumers and be cheaper at the store than beef from the regional facilities to grind grains to flour or producers are both rancher down the road from you? While the turn animals into meat, the food system we harmed by lack of global market shifts and customers search for want will elude us. transparency in the prices they can afford, we ranchers commit current food system, two years in advance to raise certified organic, There are seeds and sprouts of this new be it political and grassfed beef. We scale up to meet demand, system. Networks of distribution and industry resistance only to find that our pioneering risks to raise transportation systems like La Montañita’s to country-of- this food are suddenly all for naught. Co-op Distribution Center are critical to a origin labeling regional food system. Regional centralization or the growing Farmers’ markets and direct sales alone can greatly decrease the fossil fuel miles food confusion of claims won’t build this system. Farmers and travels; one large truck full of food uses less gas and certifications ranchers are often far from towns large than multiple small pickups driving carrots telling you this enough to make direct marketing profitable. from farm to town. Rather than fight over package of green Our ranch has a 100-mile round-trip drive customers and undercut one another, many beans will fix to a farmers’ market. Our customers loved ranchers now band together in cooperatives your car and your our beef and bought weekly, even during and organizations, like Sweet Grass Co-op cholesterol levels. the economic recession beginning in (of which we are co-founders) and Southwest 2008. But we still drove steaks and roasts Grassfed Livestock Association to market Our human delight round-trip too many Saturdays, and many collectively, build farm-to-table initiatives, in new flavors and weeks didn’t cover our gas and labor costs. and educate ourselves as land stewards and foods, as well as our Currently, retail stores lack the structure entrepreneurs. From soil conservation groups demand that our to purchase from individual farms and to growers associations, those who grow food favorite familiar ranches that aren’t able to produce the recognize that much of the harm done to © Seth Roffman foods be available volume of zucchini or chickens needed. the planet comes from agriculture, and we “Alice in Cornland” — A farm in the Gila practice a land ethic that gives back to the region of southern New Mexico year-round, places impossible demands on our growing season and farmers. An oft-quoted statistic is that we are seven soil we all depend upon.
18 Green Fire Times Oc tober 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com Everyone can do something. Don’t let Julie Sullivan and the enormity of the problem keep you her husband George from finding your small percentage of the Whitten own and solution. Focus on what is within your manage a certif ied discretion, not on what you can’t change. organic cattle ranch What can you do, today, to act personally to in the San Luís Valley create or support the food system you want? of Colorado. She is the What can you do in the next two weeks? founding mentor of the Quivira Coalition’s Now, go do it. The system you want starts New Agrarian Program and a former with you. ■ university professor of environmental studies.
FOOD SYSTEM INVESTMENTS BOOST REGIONAL ECONOMIES The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the U.S.D.A’s agencies of Rural Development and the Agricultural Marketing Service, has released Harvesting Opportunity: The Power of Regional Food System Investments to Transform Communities, a compilation of new research, essays and reports that explore the potential for the growing popularity of locally sourced food harnessed to boost economic New Mexico Department of opportunities for rural and urban communities. Agriculture table at New Mexico AgFest “Regional food systems represent a promising avenue for economic growth through the creation of new or the enhancement of existing jobs and businesses,” say Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lael Brainard and St. Louis Fed President James Bullard in the book’s foreword. “With appropriately targeted policies and support, the attendant opportunities can advance the economic and financial security of low- and moderate-income households and communities.”
Contributors include experts from the U.S.D.A., financial institutions, universities, nonprofits, philanthropic organizations and more. The book covers topics such as: Prospects available in the regional food systems sector, How to advance efforts to provide meaningful earnings and job opportunities for low- and moderate-income households and communities, Vital partnerships that are key for deploying knowledge and capital to support the sector’s continued growth, Examples of communities that have used regional food strategies to advance economic and other community goals, and Models of collaboration between policymakers, practitioners and the financial community.
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“HOMEGROWN” EVENT SHOWCASES NEW MEXICO FOOD PRODUCTS Food produced in New Mexico will be showcased at the fourth annual HomeGrown: A New Mexico Food Show & Gift Market, Nov. 18-19 at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. The museum is partnering with the New Mexico Department of Agriculture to present the event.
Sixty growers and businesses will be represented. Some items offered for sampling: salsas, baked goods, sauces, honey, produce, jerky, candy, cheese, beans, pecans, pistachios and wine. New Mexico crafts will also be represented.
Many of the vendors are members of NMDA’s Taste the Tradition and Grown with Tradition programs. Some of the enterprises previously featured: Kianna’s Chile Products (vegan mango salsa, Laos chile paste) and Valley Gurlz Goodz, of Albuquerque (pickled vegetables); Andele’s Restaurant and Ol’ Gringo, from Las Cruces (pecan pie, salsa and gift sets); and Jesusita’s Salsa Fresca, of Cimarrón. A few of the new vendors: Jinglebob Land & Cattle Company, of Anthony; Mesquite Willie’s Desert Products (mesquite flour, Southwest seasonings, barbecue rubs); and Morrow Farms, of Hatch (pinto beans).
The market will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 19. Admission is $5 per vehicle. For more info, call 575.522.4100. www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times Oc tober 2017 19 WHAT ARE FOOD POLICY COUNCILS? Join In and Make a Difference Pam Roy and Helen Henry
or most people the question of Food Policy Council’s support for the where their food comes from new Mercado del Sur, a farmers’ market stops when they enter their local on the southside of Santa Fe. Southside Fsupermarket. There, on the carefully residents can now have easier access to stocked shelves, are rows and rows of food fresh, locally grown produce in season. This, and related items. Easy. But if you looked coupled with the Fresh RX program, a pilot at all of the factors that influenced where project of the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market that food comes from and the choices that in partnership with La Familia Health were made in the process, you would find Clinic, gives people an incentive to shop a more complex story. at the farmers’ market for fresh fruits and vegetables. The “Fresh Rx” or prescription The truth is, your local supermarket is for fresh produce is like a coupon given by the tip of the iceberg. We all know that healthcare providers and is redeemable at somehow, somewhere, farmers are growing farmers’ market. food, but most of us are removed from the process. Recent emphasis on labeling where More than 345,000 children in New food comes from (in fact, even what county Mexico participate in school nutrition it comes from) helps to give some context, programs. Through the New Mexico Food 2017 New Mexico Farm to School and Markets awardees at Food and Farms Day and School but the process is still very abstract. and Agriculture Policy Council’s work on Nutrition Day at the New Mexico Legislature federal policy change, schools can now Enter the local food policy council. buy fresh fruits and vegetables from New The purpose of a food policy council Mexico farmers, providing students with is to provide an integrated approach, fresh local options, while meeting federal involving government, non-profits and school meal guidelines. food and farming businesses in a common effort to improve the availability of safe These are just some examples of how and nutritious food at reasonable prices organizations and agencies can work for all residents, particularly those in together to build integrated approaches need. But it doesn’t stop there. Having to both creating sustainable income access to good nutritious food is equally for farmers and connecting people important. Transportation, affordability with fresh healthy food at the source. and availability of healthy food are all part At the heart the work of food policy of the factors in which food policy councils councils is partnering with numerous can play a role in creating a comprehensive stakeholders throughout the community food system. to understand problems that can be changed through coordinated policy and Examples of this include the Santa Fe advocacy efforts.
2017 Organization of the Year, La Plazita Institute, from the South Valley of Albuquerque. La Plazita director Albino García (far right) and José Luís with some of the team members; FARM to SCHOOL MONTH Center: Food Professional of the Year Barbara Berger, health and nutrition specialist with Las October is National Farm to School Month, a time to celebrate the connections Cruces Public Schools happening all over the country between children and local food. From taste tests in the cafeteria and nutrition education activities in the classroom, to farm visits and school garden harvest parties, school, early care and education sites, farms, This can result in overarching goals and Farm to Table and the communities and organizations in all 50 states and D.C. join in the celebrations. recommendations that affect decision and New Mexico School policy makers, and help streamline systems Nutrition Association Schools across New Mexico engage in educational activities, school gardens, and farmers’ of distribution and influence buying for “New Mexico fresh fruits and vegetables in schools meals from Grady and Corona to Los Lunas, patterns. The overall goal is healthy food Food and Farms Day, Santo Domingo Pueblo, Bernalillo, Las Cruces, Española, Albuquerque and Santa Fe. and a healthy economy. ■ New Mexico School
Nutrition Day and National Farm to School Month was designated by Congress in 2010 to demonstrate the growing importance of farm to school programs as a means to Pam Roy, executive director and Helen Henry the New Mexico Farm improve child nutrition, support local economies and educate children about the director of communications of Farm to Table, to School Awards at origins of food. provide coordination for the Santa Fe and the 2018 Legislature,” Jan. 23, 2018. For New Mexico Food Policy Councils. Contact information, contact: Pam Roy, Farm to Table Join the celebration of National Farm to School month and its network in [email protected]. More information and the New Mexico Food and Agriculture New Mexico. For information about programs in your community, contact can be found at www.santafefoodpolicy.org Policy Council, [email protected] and Kendal Chávez, Farm to School director: [email protected], and www.farmtotablenm.org. Join the New Kendal Chávez, Farm to School Director, Farm www.farmtoschool.org Mexico Food and Agriculture Policy Council, to Table, [email protected]
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ith the celebration of World Food Day on If you look at food in different cultures you’ll notice that choice. Now I understand that if you eat real, good food, Oct. 16, it seems appropriate to explore many of the plants we consider weeds are cultivated as food and live a healthy lifestyle, that’s what’s important. the subject of how food and economics are crops. Yet most Americans see these plants as having no use integrallyW entwined, particularly for women, who often at all. Many wild edible plants are plentiful, easy to harvest, Food is nurturing on so many levels. It’s communal. I love find innovative ways of bringing these two things full and require no time or money to cultivate. Foraging offers cooking with friends, gathering food together and eating circle. Icaught up with two women, Melissa Willis and people the chance to feed themselves well. And it exposes together. I appreciate unique, unbuyable flavors. Foraged Ellen Zachos, to hear their thoughts on food, advocacy us to foods from other cultures. flavors are unlike anything you’ll find in a store. I enjoy and making a difference. everything from the harvest to the prep and eating. To me, CM: What is the biggest mistake you’ve made in your it’s a great joy to feed other people freely. To make food Cydney Martin: World Food Day, which is a program food journey? that pleases and delights my friends and family— that’s of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United enormously satisfying! Nations, has set the goal of Zero Hunger by 2030. Would MW: I think the biggest mistake I’ve made is thinking you share areas of your work that you consider to be most that the journey is a straight line. As with everything, there CM: What made you take the leap into your profession significant to making this happen? are twists and turns and bumps in the road. Practicing with food? patience with myself when I eat poorly, or purchase chunks Mellisa Willis: The Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB) of my weekly groceries from “big box” stores instead of 100 MW: A little over a decade ago, in fairly rapid succession, program at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market is designed to percent from local sources has become necessary as I allow I read Harvest for Hope by Jane Goodall and then had the improve the health and nutrition of low-income families for an evolution of eating to happen. pleasure of hearing her speak. Harvest for Hope provided and increase their access to healthy, local food by doubling an important awakening within me about my part in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) A few years ago my family undertook what we called the wide and deepening damage that is being inflicted on benefits. In 2016, over $220,000 SNAP and DUFB Local Bite Challenge, where we challenged ourselves to this lovely planet of ours. In addition to outlining how dollars were spent at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market eat 100 percent locally (food sourced from within 100 dire our situation is, she also offered easy, actionable steps alone, providing over 600,000 servings of fresh fruits and miles) for 100 days, with a set spending limit per week. toward softening our footsteps and working to heal our vegetables to our local families. This opened my eyes to what locally grown foods we have environment (buy a reusable water bottle, eat less meat, available to us, as well as what’s not available. It also opened grow a few of your own veggies, carpool when you can, etc.). With close to 20 percent of Santa Fe County’s population my eyes to how expensive eating 100 percent local can be, living below the poverty line, not only does this program and how disheartening that fact can be, given the bigger EZ: I was a professional gardener in NYC and loved have a positive impact on individuals and their families; it’s picture challenges that come along with it. working with plants, but I primarily worked with also incredibly beneficial to our economy by keeping dollars ornamentals. My interest gradually shifted to plants that local and directly supporting the farmers and ranchers who EZ: I ate a lot of crap when I was young. I didn’t realize are not just pretty to look at, but also useful and edible. It’s work tirelessly to provide the freshest, most nutrient-dense how important it was to know where your food comes always been important for me to love my work, and as foods possible. from and what you’re putting in your body. Food was very wild food became the thing I’m most passionate about, connected to body image, and loving food made me feel I decided to make my living teaching people how to Ellen Zachos: I like that the theme for World Food guilty, because I somehow thought that eating was bad or safely harvest and cook with wild foods. It’s challenging, Day this year focuses on migration, food security and rural forbidden. I’d eat stuff with chemicals in it because it had because, let’s face it—foraging is a niche subject. But development because all of these things relate to foraging. fewer calories, not realizing that that was not a healthy it’s what I love. ■
Cydney Martin is the Santa Fe County Family and Consumer Melissa Willis is the program director at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Ellen Zachos is the author of seven books. She has written about Sciences agent for NMSU. She’s a fourth-generation farmer, Market Institute. You can follow her path of food adventures foraging for About.com and is a regular contributor to Edible. an Aging-in-Place specialist, a Master Food Preserver, and a at evergrowingfarm.com com. Her passion for foraging is highlighted in her books The member of the Santa Fe Food Policy Council. Wildcrafted Cocktail and Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn’t Know You Could Eat. www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • October 2017 23 Your destination is easier than you think WESST HOLIDAY SANTA FE POP-UP SHOP TAOS Friday, October 20, 2017 11:00a - 6:00p MADRID HOP ON! More info: www.wesst.org/event CHIMAYO Showcasing the wonderful, creative CHAMA work of our clients!
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he I CAN (Ideas for Cooking and “As an ICAN educator I have been able to Nutrition) Program, sponsored help many SNAP participants spend their and funded by New Mexico benefits more effectively while making TState University’s Cooperative Extension better food choices. The Double Up Food Service, USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Bucks program at our Santa Fe Farmers’ Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Markets allows them to buy more fresh Expanded Food and Nutrition Education fruits and vegetables while staying within program, has three nutrition educators a reasonable budget. It also enables them in Santa Fe County. The program to stretch their SNAP dollars throughout provides free, the month, instead of hands‐on, needs‐ using their allotment based education in up within one or the areas of healthy With low wages and two weeks. For those food choices, food who still don’t have preparation, food high rents, food ends up enough left over for safety, exercise at the bottom of the list. the month, food banks, and food resource unfortunately, are the management. The only other option. educators come to a classroom and provide practical, healthy, kid-friendly “I take SNAP applications with me recipes for children to make at home everywhere I go, and give out, on average, with limited assistance. The program at least five a month.” Janette Segura provides hands-on education about fresh vegetables and gardening to young has been in Santa Fe County for over — Janette Segura residents at Camino Jocobo Housing. 30 years. They are the “boots on the ground” that meet participants where ”One day I was at a lunch site for senior they are. Last year they provided one- citizens and someone told me that she only on-one educational services to 4,076 got $15 a month in SNAP benefits. She participants. lives in the northern part of the county, and she said her father left her some land Two Educators’ SNAP Stories when he died, which is why she received so little money. She said it was hard to afford “Most of my SNAP participants are families food, adding: ’You can’t eat land…’ with both parents working multiple jobs. Low wages and high rents are usually their “Anytime I am doing ICAN programming main concern. Add car payments, utilities, I hear people lament, without prompting, medical bills, school costs and a wide variety that the SNAP benefits they receive are of other expenses to that, and food ends up not nearly enough to last through the at the bottom of the list. month. Many of the people I am referring to have disabilities that prevent them from I also work with many elders on fixed working, or they are advanced in age and incomes who need to decide on paying unable to work anymore. for medicine or paying for food. Most only receive the minimum payment from “There is one man who is elderly and caring SNAP; some tell me they only receive $10 a for his disabled wife. Every month I see month. Others say they make $10 a month him at Commodities as well as at a local too much to qualify. A few are caring for food pantry.” grandchildren and need to work part-time — Renee Zisman jobs to keep up. Cydney Martin is the Santa Fe County “I know of at least two participants who became Family and Consumer Sciences agent gravely ill and were not able to keep their jobs. for New Mexico State University and They do qualify for SNAP, but it is not enough a member of the Santa Fe Food Policy to feed them for the month. In these sorts of cases, Council. I have referred them to food banks, which is © Seth Roffman Luz López, from Nambé, who sells her produce with her husband, José, at the Española where I now frequently see them. Farmers’ Market, is a repeat Chile Fest cook-off winner. www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • October 2017 25 November 15-17, 2017 Embassy Suites, Albuquerque
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e have all heard “an apple a day sale at the MFM are traditional to the South keeps the doctor away,” but Valley and to markets in general: squash, THE AGRI-CULTURA NETWORK what is this trying to convey, carrots, onions, tomatoes, corn and peppers Helga García Garza and is the message of value to the average of all varieties. In addition, new choices such W The Agri-Cultura Cooperative Network person? In its essence, “an apple a day…” as kale, chard, garlic scapes and turnips have alludes to that, if an individual eats healthier, been introduced. These offerings have elicited (ACN), based in Albuquerque’s South Valley, aggregates, processes, distributes that person will be healthier. But what questions. “What is this?” and “How do I cook and sells locally grown produce to help happens when that apple is not accessible, it?” can be heard on most market days. ensure that healthy food is accessible or if it is, how can it be prepared in a way and affordable to low-income families that is healthy and flavorful to people who For the past four years, First Choice has hosted that might otherwise be struggling with do not like apples? and co-coordinated Cooking for Health poor nutrition or hunger. classes at its South Valley Health Commons The South Valley of Albuquerque, New clinic classroom. The classes provide solutions Río Abajo and Río Arriba Mexico, has long been a place where culture, on how to cook unfamiliar foods in healthy, communities have a long cultural tradition and food have intersected. Like many relatively quick and tasty ways. While they tradition of earth-friendly places, shifting systems prioritize making “the agricultural practices. This legacy has inspired and driven ACN’s work and has of food production have healthy choice the easy allowed the organization to become community-driven. impacted diets, lifestyles and Activities and choice,” the classes also Since 2009, the network has become one of the region’s leading farmer cooperatives. community health. While emphasize positive lifestyle programs that It now has an established record of capacity building for farmers, who greatly in the not-too-distant past, changes. They are structured benefit from shared infrastructure and equipment, collective purchasing of an agrarian lifestyle was support rebuilding in a way that is conducive supplies, as well as aggregating produce, processing, sales and distribution. ACN the norm in the South to community and family also offers small-business training. In 2017, in partnership with Bernalillo County Valley, the community is local food systems interaction. Along with Open Space, AGN offered its first season of “Grow the Growers,” a farm-training now considered to be a food health discussions and program on land adjacent to the historic Gutiérrez-Hubbell house. desert, where healthy foods are not available. recipe demonstrations, there are stretching, However, efforts have been undertaken to breathing or movement breaks, as well as La Cosecha CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), an innovative project of support activities and programs that can lead engaging health-related childcare activities. ACN, in six years, has grown from providing 20 families with weekly fresh produce to permanent systemic changes that support bags to providing 350 families during a 20-week season. Last year there were eight rebuilding local food systems Each class has a health-related theme—for distribution sites; this season there are 17. Community-based partner organizations example, low-fat or low-salt recipes and easily access and distribute subsidized local produce, along with nutrition education. This helps families build confidence in preparing healthy foods and increase healthy By partnering with a South Valley-based healthy desserts. A First Choice provider, behavior. It has also created economic opportunities in communities that are served. farmer-owned cooperative, Agri-Cultura usually Dr. Will Kaufman, director of Network/La Cosecha CSA and the Mobile Health and Wellness, facilitates a question- The Healthy Here Mobile Farmers’ Market, another AGN program, offers affordable Farmer’s Market (MFM) (funded in part and-answer talk that centers on chronic produce in the South Valley, the International District and other areas, also plays a by the Centers for Disease Control and health conditions related to diet and role in establishing steady, alternative markets for local farmers and allied farms. Prevention), for the past three years First exercise or lack thereof. Often through Choice Community Healthcare has been able their questions, class participants shape Helga García Garza, an organic farmer, is co-director of the Agricultura to help provide community access to local, the discussion and receive answers to the Cooperative Network/La Cosecha. She oversees food access and health operations, organic, seasonal vegetables and fruit. Some questions that most concern them. program development and collaborations/partnerships. Call 505.217.2461 or visit of the foods included in CSA bags and on CONTINUED ON PAGE 29 http://agri-cultura.org
HEALTHY HERE on Oct. 31. All forms of payment including food stamps MOBILE FARMERS’ MARKET are accepted. (Get twice as much for the same price with Double Up Food Bucks.) The Healthy Here Mobile Farmers’ Market is part of a collaborative led by Presbyterian Healthcare Services Healthy Here Mobile Farmers’ Market Schedule: Center for Community Health and the Bernalillo County Mondays/International District Community Health Council, in partnership with community 9:30–11 a.m.: UNM Southeast Heights Clinic organizations interested in increasing access to fresh produce 8200 Central Ave. SE in the South Valley and International District neighborhoods 12–1:30 p.m.: First Nations Community Healthsource of Bernalillo County. The market travels to six locations 5608 Zuni Rd. SE offering recipes, cooking demonstrations, food tastings and 2:30–4 p.m.: Van Buren Middle School, 700 Louisiana Blvd. SE fresh produce from local farms. Tuesdays/South Valley 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Presbyterian Medical Group In 2016, the market sold over $15,000 worth of produce 3436 Isleta Blvd. SW to more than 1,000 community members. In addition to 2–3:30 p.m.: First Choice Community Healthcare improving food access and promoting health education, 2001 El Centro Familiar Blvd. SW the market also supports local famers by being a consistent 4:30–6 p.m.: Los Padillas Community Center resource for distribution of harvested produce. The Healthy 2117 Los Padillas Rd. SW Some of the mobile market’s local suppliers: Here Mobile Farmers’ Market will continue traveling Joseph Alaro of Valle Encantado Farms; Inset, top: around Albuquerque until the end of the growing season Red Tractor Farms; bottom: Casa Grande Farms www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • October 2017 27 It can be this easy Green Fire Times is available at to fix computers? many locations in the metropolitan Albuquerque / Río Rancho area! For the location nearest you, call Nick García at 505.800.2080 SOL STORAGE well, ok . . . slight exaggeration. But at Capitol Computer, we want to make it feel this way for you and your team. TWO LOCATIONS Airport Cerrillos Airport Bypass And if we don't fix your problem, you won't pay a penny! 505.474.4330 505.474.4550 SALES • SERVICE • SOLUTIONS • SATISFACTION Newly Expanded All Sizes • Mac with heated & A/C Units Resident Managers (Next to Ferrell Gas) (Airport Road at the Bypass) • PC / Windows VE IN SPECIA • Residential MO LS • Commercial • Servers 518 Old Santa Fe Trail, Ste 6 • Networks SOLSTORAGE.NET Santa Fe, NM • Wi-Fi 505-216-1108 • www.ccandns.com • [email protected] FRESH, LOCAL FOOD Year-Round, Direct to You!
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28 Green Fire Times Oc tober 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com When an Apple a Day Is Not Enough HOSPITAL PROGRAM OFFERS continued from page 27 KIDS FREE HEALTHY MEALS In New Mexico, one in four children struggles with hunger, according to The first recipe covered during a class may The classes would not be as successful Feeding America. And the evidence is clear—when children have access to be a healthy liquado drink. These can include without the partner organizations. BlueCross healthy, nutritious food they earn better grades and test scores, their ability infused water, smoothie and nut milks. Then BlueShield-NM, HKHF and Presbyterian to focus improves, and they are less likely to miss school. there may be two or three food recipes, which Healthcare Services have provided funding; may be as simple as a kale chip demonstration Cooperativa Korimi, Inc. has worked on Healthy food is also critical for overall health. As part of its commitment to or as advanced as plant-based tamales. The outreach; ACCESS contributes to childcare; improving communities’ health, Presbyterian Healthcare Services provides recipes introduce meals such as a quinoa-nopal the Agri-Cultura Network/La Cosecha support for cooking classes, farmers’ market incentive programs, a mobile farmers’ market and community gardens. salad, and demonstrate how to substitute contributes food and facilitation. And there healthier ingredients and/or cooking methods are many community volunteers. And in February 2016, Presbyterian began offering another option to connect the in preparing traditional dishes. community to healthy food. Inside its four hospitals—Plains Regional Medical While eating an apple a day may be a good Center in Clovis, Socorro General Hospital, and Presbyterian Hospital and The class also incorporates “active living” start, improving health and wellness works Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital (both in Albuquerque)—children have access to activities such as yoga, stretching, deep breathing best with a process that involves many a free, healthy meal or snack any day of the week. They do not need to qualify for and mindfulness exercises. Participants receive partners and engages community members the program; it is open to all throughout the year. As of Sept. 1, 2017, the hospitals prizes at dance contests. During these in taking an active role. ■ had provided more than 15,200 meals. activities, parents and grandparents are up and down checking on their little ones. Even Juan López is First Choice Community The meal program is a partnership between Presbyterian Healthcare Services, with the onsite childcare activities, the class is Healthcare’s South Valley Commons coordinator. the USDA Food and Nutrition Service Southwest Region and the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department. The USDA operates the federally designed to be intergenerational so that health For more information, call 505.873.7400 or funded, state-administered Child and Adult Care Food Program during the school and wellness techniques and resources can be visit www.fcch.com year and the Summer Food Service Program in the summer to serve healthy meals integrated within the whole family. to kids and teens in low-income areas.
Meal Program Hours: BERNALILLO COUNTY AND KIDS COOK! LAUNCH • Presbyterian Hospital “FÜDRR” HEALTHY LIFESTYLE COMPETITION Daily: meal, 1 p.m.–7 p.m., snack, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. This month, Kids Cook! is launching the fūdrr (“fooder”) pilot project in downtown • Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital Albuquerque. Fūdrr users earn fresh produce at local retailers. Fūdrr coupons are Monday–Friday: meal, 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m., snack, 1 p.m.–4:30 p.m. redeemable at the downtown Silver Street Market. Through October, the coupons will • Socorro General Hospital also be accepted at Health Here Mobile Farmers Market in six locations throughout Monday-Friday: meal, 9 a.m.– 1:30 p.m., snack, 1:30 a.m.–4 p.m. the International District and the South Valley. By signing up for fūdrr in October, Saturday and Sunday: meal, 9 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. people will receive 100 bonus points. • Plains Regional Medical Center Daily: meal, 11 a.m.– 7 p.m. Presbyterian Healthcare Services’ Center for Community Health sponsored the development of the fūdrr bilingual, healthy lifestyle web app. The project’s anchor partners are the Bernalillo County Wellness Program, Downtown Arts & Cultural District, NM Health Care Takes on Diabetes/Prescription Trails, and Presbyterian GROW THE GROWERS IN BERNALILLO COUNTY Healthcare Service. The UNM Anderson School of Business is a supporter through Farm Training and Business Acceleration its Small Business Initiative. Kids Cook! is seeking additional fūdrr redemption Grow the Growers is a sites and sponsors. comprehensive, multi-year farm training and business Füdrr acceleration program • Rewards users for posting healthy eating and active living photos and videos designed to attract new • Allows points to be donated to other fūdrr user and local schools and emerging farmers • Creates “healthy” competition among individuals, families, neighborhoods, into professional food production. Bernalillo schools and communities County and its program • Provides a tool for healthcare partners and sponsors to motivate their members partners (Agri-Cultura and patients to adopt healthier lifestyles Network, McCune Charitable Foundation, Thornburg Foundation and New • Facilitates collaboration among healthcare, government, school, food retailers Mexico State University) seek to strengthen the local food economy by nurturing and other business partners interested in fun, family-friendly, on-line challenges the next generation of food entrepreneurs through providing educational support that provide positive brand name recognition in the form of workshops, in-field and on-farm internships, paid stipends for full- time interns, small-business mentoring and access to affordable land and water. • Brings customers to fūdrr retail sponsors • Offers customized healthy lifestyle campaigns for specific high-risk cohorts, The Grow the Growers program is based at the historic Gutiérrez-Hubbell House such as people with diabetes or heart disease History and Cultural Center in the South Valley. In order to learn from diverse • Promotes positive business branding through sponsored, location-based farm production and business operation methods, Grow the Growers interns also outreach campaigns and contests work with partner farms to enhance their educational experiences. • Includes powerful analytical, HIPPA-compliant data tools tool to motivate and According to the county, between 80 and 90 percent of fresh fruit and vegetables track healthy eating and active living activities consumed in the Albuquerque area are grown outside of New Mexico. Despite • Provides detailed user analytics its rich agrarian history, the South Valley is home to many families in need of About Kids Cook! better access to locally grown, healthy food. Food grown by Grow the Growers interns is distributed to 350 local families through La Cosecha CSA, a community Founded in 2001, Kids Cook! has provided healthy eating, cooking and supported agriculture initiative of Agri-Cultura. Sixty-five percent of families active living programming for over 40,000 students in low-income schools. receiving weekly food shares do so at subsidized rates. Proceeds are returned to Kids Cook! has expanded its reach to helping families and the general public. the Grow the Growers program to support future cohorts of the farm training and For additional information, email Mary Meyer, Kids Cook! director: mary. business acceleration program. For more information, call 505.314.0399 or email [email protected] [email protected] www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • October 2017 29 Looking for a green Home? I can help you find a home with environmentally-friendly features. SeLLing your green Home? I know the requirements for “green,” and can effectively market it for you.
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In November, AgSprint will host Future Agro Challenge’s first U.S. national competition, in Las Cruces. Ten startups in food retail, food production, food CELEBRATE THE SUN AT SOLAR FIESTA IN ABQ sustainability, nutrition and health and other areas will compete in pitch challenges On Oct. 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the New Mexico Solar Energy Association and other tests. The best startup, chosen by venture capitalists from around the will host its Solar Fiesta at the Sawmill Community Land Trust Park Plaza, country, will move on to the international Future Agro Challenge competition 997 18th St NW. The event will provide opportunities to learn about the latest in Istanbul, Turkey. The goal of that challenge is “to foster a community of agro in solar technology, energy efficiency and sustainable practices for the home visionaries, startups, farmers, manufacturers and distributors from across the and community, and to take workshops and talk one-on-one with renewable world so they can start a global conversation,” according to Future Agro’s website. energy and solar educators, passive-solar pioneers and science fair judges. There will be Tesla car rides, educational resources for green initiatives such as water Revolution Agriculture conservation, a solar cook-off, activities for kids, food trucks and local musicians. One of AgSprint’s teams, Revolution Agriculture, an Albuquerque-based For more information, visit nmsolar.org agtech company founded in 2016, was the only U.S.-based startup out of more than 50 companies to participate in the finals of the Global Entrepreneurship Athena Christodoulou, NMSEA’s president, said that part of the Congress Future Agro Challenge, in Johannesburg, South Africa, earlier this organization’s mission is focused on new solutions to help low- and middle- year. Revolution Agriculture is focused on the challenges of global food insecurity income families find solutions for renewable energy access to their own piece as well as corporate sustainability. Founder/CEO, Richard Brion, says that the of the sun with “community solar,” sometimes referred to as community company’s closed-system, modular, organic farms produce eight times the yield per solar gardens. “Over the next 15 months,” she said, “NMSEA will be square foot of conventional farms, run 100 percent on renewable energy and use 90 collaborating with the Department of Energy to bring more of these gardens percent less water. to our state in the SunShot Prize: Solar in Your Community Challenge.” This is a $5-million prize competition that aims to expand solar electricity access Brion’s concerns with social responsibility, drought and water access drive his to all Americans, including local and tribal governments and nonprofit desire to work with tribal governments in New Mexico to implement Revolution organizations. NMSEA members are coaching five teams: Sawmill Solar Agriculture’s systems locally, as a means for rural communities to improve access Stars, Movalistas (Española), JMEC SHINE (Española), Atrisco Heritage to nutritious foods and economic opportunities. Brion expects his farms will Academy High School and Santa Fe SunShot. eventually sell produce to retailers, targeting the estimated $161-billion nationwide unmet demand for local, organic produce. NMSEA is also working to interest high school students in renewable-energy jobs through providing guidance on how to obtain professional certifications. NMSEA’s project at ACE Leadership High School connects students interested CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY DIRECTOR in architecture, construction and engineering with thermal solar and photovoltaic SPEAKS IN NEW MEXICO ABOUT GE CROPS professionals. Genetically Engineered (GE) foods, which have only been around in recent decades, are produced by transferring genes between organisms. The resulting organisms— SQUASH BLOSSOM: SANTA FE’S either plant or animal–— do not otherwise occur in nature. The U.S. and Canada ONE-STOP MULTI-FARM SOURCE have embraced GE food crops, while Europe has broadly rejected them. With Squash Blossom, you can be the chef or let An in-depth examination published in 2016 by The New York Times, analyzing the professionals do it. In academic and industry research, as well as independent data comparing results addition to offering weekly on the two continents, found that GE crops, which the agrichemical giants have “Blossom Bags” of veggies touted as being key to feeding the world, have largely failed to achieve two of the for home kitchens, the local technology’s primary objectives: to increase crop yields and decrease pesticide use. foods distributor sells to over 20 restaurants in Santa Speaking in Santa Fe recently, Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Fe. If you’re eating at your Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., said, “Why favorite down-home spot would the industry spend hundreds of millions of research dollars and billions such as La Choza, the salsa in advertising and lobbying to promote crops that actually ‘reduce pesticides?’ in which you’re dipping your Are these companies committing economic suicide in an altruistic attempt to chips is made from tomatoes Leslie Moody and Mitch Ackerman prepare a Squash feed the world? Obviously not. The vast majority of GE crops are designed to grown by Rancho La Jolla in Blossom local foods supper at Rancho Gallina Inn and massively increase herbicide use.” Velarde. That fried egg on Eco-Retreat south of Santa Fe. © Gabriella Marks top of your enchilada was Trangenic ingredients are now found in the majority of nonorganic processed laid by chickens in Río Rancho at the Galloping Grace Youth Ranch. foods. Authoritative medical researchers say that the general public is eating pesticides on a regular basis, with unknown or unacknowledged cumulative Home “Blossom Bags” can be ordered online and custom-filled with your choice health impacts. Animals do not metabolize herbicides that are sometimes used of produce, eggs and locally made goodies like kombucha, pickles, honey, jam, on animal feed crops, so it is passed into manure that may be used in gardens, mustard and even locally-roasted coffee from Pour Vida Roasters in Albuquerque. damaging crops, say Santa Fe gardeners who have had their soil tested. Fish, All the produce is harvested-to-order and delivered within 36 hours of having been amphibians and songbirds have also been impacted, and populations of key in the ground. food crop pollinators, such as bees, have been decimated. If you want to partake in a sumptuous meal and meet the farmers who Weeds and insects are becoming resistant to the herbicides such as glyphosate (the grow these products, Squash Blossom hosts monthly dinners at rotating main ingredient of Monsanto’s RoundUp, deemed a “probable carcinogen” by the locations to feature various restaurants that source locally. To order a World Health Organization in 2015). Pesticide resistant superweeds have farmers Blossom Bag, view a list of restaurants or get tickets to the next Squash using higher and higher amounts and new chemical cocktails of dangerous poisons, Blossom supper (Oct. 19, 6 pm at the State Capital Kitchen), visit: degrading soil, contaminating groundwater and food. www.squashblossomlocalfood.com www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • October 2017 37 Shane Woolbright and Sandrine Gaillard, Ph.D., address global warming, utility WHAT'S GOING ON! regulation, energy conservation and solar energy’s great potential in NM. 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Oct. 11, 18, 25 ALBUQUERQUE Community Open House Days: 10/7, 10 HERBALISM EVENTS Oct. 7–8 Through Nov. 11 am–6:30 pm and 10/8, 10:30 am–5 pm. 10/11: Moxibustion demo. 10/18, 25: Class ABQ AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FESTIVAL LONG ENVIRONMENTALISM I Free. 505.989-1199, sitesf.org on Medicinal barks in the field and the lab. IPCC, 2401 12th NW N THE NEAR NORTH Milagro Herbs. 505.820.6321 50 traditional and contemporary Native UNM Art Museum, 1 University of New Mexico Oct. 6, 6:30 pm artists and dance groups. Admission A collection of photos and writings by GUARDIANS GALA Oct. 12, 6 pm $8.40/$6.40/$5.40/Children under 5 free. UNM professor Subhankar Banerjee. Closed SF Farmers’ Market Pavilion FARMER FUNDRAISER 505.843.7270, www.indianpueblo.org Sundays and Mondays. Unmartmuseum.org WildEarth Guardians benefit SF Farmers’ Market dinner. 505.988.9126, ext. 0, www. Local foods supper and music to support a Oct. 21, 9 am–4 pm Nov. 15–17 wildearthguardians.org tool library for beginning farmers to grow SOLAR FIESTA/COMMUNITY FAIR QUIVIRA COALITION CONFERENCE their business. $40. Northern NM Young Sawmill Community Land Trust Embassy Suites Hotel Oct. 7, 10 am–1 pm Farmers Alliance meeting at 4:30 pm. Register: 997 18th St. NW “Ranching and Farming at the Radical AMPERSAND SUSTAINABLE https://farmerfundraiser.eventbrite.com Free family event. nmsolar.org/solar- Center.” Conference will bring together LEARNING CENTER TOUR fiesta-2017, See page 37. thought leaders, agrarian innovators and Demonstration site for sustainable Oct. 12, 7 pm land stewards. Plenary presentations, practices, permaculture and associated THE LAST SHEPHERDS Oct. 22, 8:30 am roundtable discussions and networking. technologies. 30 minutes from SF. Violent Crown Cinema ACEQUIA CELEBRATION/FUN RUN Post-conference activities and workshops. Carpooling available. $39. amanda@ Film about northern NM sheepherders Sánchez Farms, 1180 Arenal SW Discounted rates to beginning ampersandproject.org, www.sfcc.edu/ce Antonio and Molly Manzanares, who, with 8:30 am: registration. 9:15 am: 5K/1K ranchers, farmers and students. https:// director Scott Andrews, will be part of a begins. Activities for kids, raffle. Honoring of quiviracoalition.org Oct. 7, 5:30 pm Q&A, thewisdomarchive.com acequia after fun run. 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State Office, 100 Sun Ave. NE centerevent/4th-annual-pueblo-film-fest/ GUNS TO GARDENS fire impacts, acequia deliveries, “living Workshop to learn about planning and CCA, 1050 Old Pecos Tr. river,” water quality, reuse strategies, storm working capital grants for farmers, ranchers, First Sundays Mayor Javier Gonzales, author Valerie management, etc. $20. at the door (cash co-ops and associations. 505.761.4952, NM MUSEUM OF NATURAL Plame, poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, sculptor only) Registration: https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/ [email protected] HISTORY Jeremy Thomas and gun violence survivors. ebtag/workshop/registration/home.cfml 1801 Mountain Road Presented by New Mexican to Prevent Gun Oct. 28, 6–9 pm Museum admission is free to NM residents Violence. Free. http://rawtools.org Oct. 12–14 AWARDS GALA & AUCTION on the first Sunday of every month. ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS IPCC, 2401 12th NW 505.841.2800 Oct. 7, 7:30–9 pm CONFERENCE A celebration to support the Coalition YES MEN LIVE James A. 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Presenters: Helena Norberg-Hodge, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank NE admission. 505.246.2261, nhccnm.org ticketssantafe.org Winona LaDuke, Arvol Looking Horse, Larry Integrating mind, body and soul through Dossey, Judy Wicks, Craig Childs, Charles writing, yoga and Ayurveda. All levels ABQ 2030 DISTRICT Oct. 7, 8 am–5 pm; Oct. 8, 9 am–4 pm Eisenstein, many others. $150/adv. Some FLEA MARKET FUNDRAISER welcome. $20/$30. www.southwestwriters. A voluntary collaboration of commercial discounts available. www.localfutures.org/ com/events/workshops/ property tenants, building managers, Women’s Club and Library Association, 1616 property owners and developers; real estate, Old Pecos Trl. Oct. 14, 9 am–1 pm Through Nov. 5 energy, and building sector professionals, Supports scholarships for women, the NATURAL BUILDING OUTSTANDING IN HIS FIELD: SAN YSIDRO lenders, utility companies; and public public library and other nonprofits. 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INDIGENOUS COMIC CON [email protected] Eldorado Hotel Isleta Resort Presented by the City of SF in collaboration Some of SF’s top chefs compete for votes. Native and indigenous creators, with the 23 tribes, nations and pueblos in NM. Benefits St. Elizabeth’s Shelters & Supportive illustrators, writers, designers, actors and SANTA FE Housing. $150. Tickets: 505.982.6611, ext. producers of comic books, graphic novels, Oct. 3, 3–6 pm Oct. 10, 5–8 pm 104 or www.steshelter.org games, sci-fi, fantasy, film & television. LEAN STARTUP BOOTCAMP PIÑÓN AWARDS DINNER Indigenouscomiccon.com 35˚ North Coffee, 60 E. San Francisco St. La Fonda on the Plaza Oct. 18–22 Workshop for people interested in starting The SF Community Foundation SF INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL Through Nov. 11 a business. Sponsored by Regional celebrates the work of outstanding Screenings, panels and parties. CROSS-POLLINATION Development Corp. Facilitated by ABQid. nonprofit organizations and dedicated Santafeindependentfilmfestival.com 516 Arts, 516 Central SW Abqid.com philanthropists. $50. 505.988.9715, Exhibition at the intersection of art and www.santafecf.org Oct. 21, 9 am–12 pm science, featuring 21 artists from around Oct. 5–8 HARVEST THE SUN: SOLAR DESIGN the world, emphasizing the importance of SITE SF GRAND RE-OPENING EVENTS Oct. 11, 6–8 pm FOR EVERYDAY LIFE bees and other pollinators. 505.247.1445, 1606 Paseo de Peralta ENERGY TALKS SF Community College 516arts.org 10/6: Opening. Tickets: $25 and up; Unitarian Church, 107 W. Barcelona Rd. Class with Amanda Bramble. $39.
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Archival footage, TAOS STORYTELLING FESTIVAL Broadcast premiere of documentary film oral histories, photography, ephemera 18th annual. Local and visiting artists by Shebana Coelho about storyteller Oct. 21, 5:30 pm and artifacts. Curated by Jack Loeffler and plus workshops culminating in a Nasario García. SF MAYOR’S BALL Meredith Davidson. http://nmhistorymuseum. “story slam” at Taos Mesa Brewing. SF Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St. org/calendar.php? Taosstorytellingfestival.com Oct. 31–31 Live auction, music by Michael Hearne MISS NAVAJO COUNCIL & South by Southwest and Nosotros. Sundays, 11 am Oct. 19–21 Navajo Division of Education Auditorium, Food by some of SF’s top chefs. Benefits JOURNEY SANTA FE CONVERSATIONS INDIGENOUS FOODS EXPERIENCE Window Rock, AZ. Communities in Schools and the Food Collected Works Books, 202 Galisteo St. Taos Pueblo and Taos Elemental Talks & Dialogue on Land, Water, Depot. $150. Santafemayorsball2017.org 10/1: NM Secretary of State Maggie See page 11. Air and Fire. www.missnavajocouncil.org Toulouse Oliver; 10/8: Nate Downey of SF Oct. 28, 9 am–4:45 pm Permaculture and Ann Filemyr, dean of Through Oct. 27 Nov. 4–5 CLIMATE SOLUTIONS SYMPOSIUM Southwestern College, will preview the EARTH BAG BUILDING WORKSHOP DIXON STUDIO TOUR Monte del Sol Charter School Economics of Happiness Conference; 10/15: Learn to build a sustainable, affordable, Dixon, NM “Getting Beyond the Climate Argument: Joel Aaberts, new executive director of the off-grid solar home. 575.770.0085, 505.579.4671, Dixonarts.org Plugging into Solutions.” Conference in SF, Lensic Theater; 10/22: Denise Fort, emerita earthandsunsustainablebuilders.com ABQ and Las Cruces presented by Citizens’ at UNM Law School and environmental Nov. 6–7 Climate Education–NM. Speakers from activist; 10/29: Peter De Benedittis, Ph.D., Through Feb. 18, 2008 REGENERATIVE EARTH SUMMIT CORN: SACRED GIVER OF LIFE University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. climate action and environmental justice progressive candidate for governor. Millicent Rogers Museum Food and agriculture’s potential positive organizations will present their local and Hosts: Alan Webber, Bill Dupuy and James 1504 Millicent Rogers Rd. impact on climate change. www. national work. Breakout sessions to build Burbank. Free. www.journeysantafe.com a statewide coalition. $18 adv/$25 after Images of corn in Native American textiles, attheepicenter.com/regenerative-earth- pottery, paintings, baskets and jewelry. 10/21. Includes lunch. Info: 505.577.3917, Mon.–Sat. summit/ http://tinyurl.com/2017NMCCL POEH CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM 575.758.2462, www.millicentrogers.org 78 Cities of Gold Rd., Pueblo of Pojoaque Nov. 18–19, Oct. 31 In T’owa Vi Sae’we: The People’s Pottery. Third Tues. Monthly, 5:30–8 pm HOMEGROWN: NM FOOD SHOW TAOS ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORK NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, Las ARTISTS’ APPLICATION DEADLINE Tewa Pottery from the Smithsonian National KTAOS Cruces, NM 60 vendors from around the state. 2018 SF Studio Tour Museum of the American Indian. Nah Networking, presentations, discussion and See pg.19 Self-guided free studio tour with artist Poeh Meng: 1,600-sq.-ft. core installation professional services. Free. 505.776.7903, demonstrations takes place June highlighting the works of Pueblo artists and www.taosten.org First Mondays each month, 3–5 pm 16–17 and 23–24. Reception June 8, Pueblo history. Poehcenter.org Community Gallery show June 9–27. SUSTAINABLE GALLUP BOARD Octavia Fellin Library, Gallup, NM santafestudiotour.com Tues.–Sat. The Sustainable Gallup Board welcomes EL MUSEO CULTURAL DE SANTA FE HERE & THERE community members concerned about Nov. 1, 7–9 pm 555 Cam. de la Familia Oct. 2–7 CHURRO WEEK conservation, energy, water, recycling and XERISCAPE GARDENS Rotating exhibits, community programs Northern NM environmental issues. 505.722.0039. SF Community College and performances designed to preserve Workshops, field trips, films and lectures Learn about water-wise landscaping for Hispanic culture. Elmuseocultural.org your yard or garden with Bob Pennington. about the Navajo-Churro sheep. Hosted by Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat., 10 am–4 pm Española Valley Fiber Arts Center, Española, PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL $25. 505.428.1676, www.sfcc.edu/ce Tues., Sat., 7 am-1 pm; Weds., 3–7 pm NM. 505.747.3577, www.evfac.org EDUCATION CENTER SF FARMERS’ MARKET 2600 Canyon Rd., Los Alamos, NM Nov. 2 1607 Paseo de Peralta (& Guadalupe) MAYOR’S SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS Oct. 7, 11, 14, 21, 5:30–8 pm Nature center and outdoor education Tues., 3–6 pm: Plaza Contenta ELK-VIEWING TOURS programs. Exhibits of flora and fauna Nominations are open. Visit www. 6009 Jaguar Dr. santafenm.gov/sustainable_santa_fe_awards Valle Caldera National Preserve of the Pajarito Plateau; herbarium, live Northern NM farmers & ranchers offer NM State Rte. 4 amphibians, butterfly and xeric gardens. to see categories and nomination process. 11/2: fresh tomatoes, greens, root veggies, Presentation to congratulate 2017 winners. Backcountry guided van tours. 505.662.0460, www.losalamosnature.org cheese, teas, herbs, spices, honey, baked $38. 505.819.3263, www. goods, body-care products and much more. losamigosdevallescaldera.org/events First 3 Weds. Ea. Month, 6–7 pm Nov. 4, 8 am–4 pm santafefarmersmarket.com 18TH ANNUAL CONGRESO SOLAR 101 CLASSES Oct. 7–8, 11 am–3 pm 113 E. Logan Ave., Gallup, NM DE LAS ACEQUIAS Weds.–Sun. Santa Maria de la Paz Parish Hall WILDLIFE CENTER OPEN HOUSE Free classes about all things related to SANTA FE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 19 Wheat St., Española, NM off-grid solar systems. No pre-registration 11 College Ave. 1050 Old Pecos Tr. Annual NM Acequia Assn. meeting. Stories Annual event of nonprofit working to conserve necessary. 505.728.9246, gallupsolar@ Interactive exhibits and activities. and restore wildlife and habitats. Live animal gmail.com,Gallupsolar.org of Enduring Acequias, Testimonies in 505.989.8359, Santafechildrensmuseum.org Defense of Water. Registration $25/$20. demos, displays, kids’ activities, tour of rehab before Oct. 27. 505.995.9644, www. hospital, silent auction, refreshments. $5 BASIC LITERACY TUTOR TRAINING Sat., 8 am–4 pm suggested donation per vehicle. 505.753.9505, Española area lasaceequias.org RANDALL DAVEY AUDUBON CENTER After training by the NM Coalition for 1800 Upper Canyon Rd. [email protected], www. Literacy, volunteer tutors are matched with Nov. 6, 2–6 pm Striking landscapes and wildlife. Bird walks, newmexicowildlifecenter.org an adult student. 505.747.6162, read@raalp. CAMPUS OPEN HOUSE hikes, tours of the Randall Davey home. Institute of American Indian Arts Oct. 7–9 org, www.raalp.org/become-a-tutor.html 505.983.4609, http://nm.audubon.org/ ABIQUIÚ STUDIO TOUR 83 A Van Nu Po Rd. landingcenter-chapters/visiting-randall- Abuquiú, NM SPIRIT OF THE BUTTERFLY Open studios and classrooms, campus tours. davey-audubon-center-sanctuary Dedication of new Performing Arts and Fitness 24th annual. More than 50 artists. 923 E. Fairview Land, Española, NM Abiquiustudiotour.org Women’s support group organized by Center at 3:30 pm. 505..424.2325, https://iaia.edu Daily SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN Tewa Women United. Info/RSVP: Beverly, Oct. 12–14 Nov. 8–9 715 Cam. Lejo, Museum Hill 505.795.8117 INDIGENOUS CONNECTIVITY HISTORIAS DE NUEVO MÉXICO Living museum on 14 acres. Ojos y CONFERENCE SUMMIT Manos, Orchard Gardens, The Courtyard WILDLIFE WEST NATURE PARK Northern NM College, Española, NM and 87 N. Frontage Rd., Edgewood, NM Hotel Santa Fe Gardens and the Arroyo Trails. Northern Río Grande Heritage Center 122-acre park just east of ABQ. Interactive Free event focused on connecting Santafebotanicalgarden.org Indigenous communities to the Internet. “Querencia Interrupted: Native American trail focuses on rescued, non-releasable, Success stories of Indigenous community and Hispanic Experience of the Manhattan native New Mexican wildlife and native networks. 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