The Seeds of Rural Resilience
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NEWS & VIEWS FROM THE SUSTAINABLE SOUTHWEST Growing a Regional Food System THE SEEDS OF RURAL RESILIENCE October 2017 NORTHERN NEW MEXICO’S LARGEST DISTRIBUTION NEWSPAPER Vol. 9 No. 10 2 Green Fire Times • October 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com Is Your Roof Winter Ready? Whether your roof is currently leaking or you’d like to restore your roof before it fails, Fix My Roof is the right choice. Call today for a free roof assessment! www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • October 2017 3 YOU’LL LOVE WHAT YOU SEE! PROGRAM PARTNERS: FRIDAY SATURDAY OCT 27 NOV 14 7:30 PM 7:30 PM Sponsored by The L.A. 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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, Iit, 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.