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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 GROWING A REGIONAL FOOD SYSTEM THE RETURN OF TRUE AGRICULTURAL LOCALISM VOLUME 12 NUMBER 4 GREENFIRETIMES.COM PUBLISHER GREEN EARTH PUBLISHING, LLC EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SETH ROFFMAN / [email protected] PLEASE SUPPORT GREEN FIRE TIMES GUEST ASSOCIATE EDITOR ERIN ORTIGOZA Green Fire Times provides a platform for regional, community-based DESIGN WITCREATIVE voices—useful information for residents, businesspeople, students and COPY EDITOR STEPHEN KLINGER visitors—anyone interested in the history and spirit of New Mexico and the Southwest. One of the unique aspects of GFT is that it offers CONTRIBUTING WRITERS ANITA ADALJA, JAIME CHÁVEZ, JULIANA multicultural perspectives and a link between the green movement and CIANO, VANESSA COLÓN, MARTHA COOKE, ZOE FINK, LUCY GENT FOMA, LISA traditional cultures. B. 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The life, work, heart and soul reflected in T these pages demonstrates the strength and hope alive in our communities. These stories link system-level concepts with entrepreneurial and community experience. They speak to the food value chain and what that means to us as we seek to co-create a revolutionary and resilient systemic response to the culmination of these times. We witness shifts that have happened through the eyes of the many contributors, and are also made aware of changes that are still needed to rebuild our regional food system. There is a new order developing. Equitable access through the localization of agriculture rings loud and clear. These articles explore the specifics of various organizations’ and food/agricultural entre- preneurs’ journeys and what it takes to work with mission, purpose and passion through unprecedented challenges. The tenacity showcased underlies work borne out of collab- oration among groups, some which have built bonds over many years and some that are discovering new ways of working together. This is an important theme as we move forward together. We are reminded that food is essential to being in alignment with our ancestry and envi- ronment. We are also ancestors for our future kin; the way that food is grown today lays groundwork for that future. Thank you to everyone working in our food community and to those who have shared their information and views through this publication. Also, thank you to Farm-to-Table New Mexico, the New Mexico Food and Agriculture Policy Council and ESHIP Río Grande for your support and assistance. Estela Alcantar’s booth at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market, Aug. 2020 © Seth Roffman ERIN ORTIGOZA GUEST ASSOCIATE EDITOR GREENFIRETIMES.COM 3 THE RETURN OF TRUE LOCALISM AGRICULTURAL likely get serious about cultivating insects for protein, either for ourselves or for CULTIVATING A SENSIBLE animal feed. FOOD SYSTEM All food ultimately comes from seed, so in order to have a strong, resilient food system, we must have strong, resilient and localized seed stock. Unfortunately, BY MIGUEL SANTISTEVAN seed is often produced separately from the farms that produce food, which is transported all over the world using fossil fuels. We need local farms dedicated Our relationship to food is the most intimate relationship we have with the to serving local farmers for seed production and agricultural research. Initially, Earth. Our flesh and bone are made of elements of the Earth, recycled food from those farms needs to be mostly grown to feed the children in schools, through the influences of sunlight, wind and water, becoming part of us seniors in our communities, and those who find themselves hospitalized or oth- through eating, drinking and breathing. In times past, we worked together in erwise in need. relatively isolated communities to procure the essentials of life. Our survival and sustenance required cooperation through collective organization and To produce this food, labor. Life was often tough and uncertain, but we relied on each other, and We need to expand our ideas we need to expand in the process, humans created cultures—represented by diverse cuisine, our ideas of agricul- art, dance and folklore. As a result of the survival of Puebloan and acequia of agricultural production tural production and culture in northern New Mexico, we are lucky to live in a place where that techniques. We need to history is still remembered and practiced. and techniques. rely on crops that are adaptable to the ex- Our ancestral relationship with food eventually resulted in the development tremes we are increas- of agriculture, which allowed us to grow and thrive. An abundance of food ingly seeing with climate change. I have been
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    Proposal for Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme Aohan Dryland Farming System Location: Aohan County, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, P.R. China People’s Government of Aohan County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Center for Natural and Cultural Heritage of Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences December 12, 2011 1 Summary Information a. Country and Location: Aohan County, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, P.R. China b. Program Title/System Title: Aohan Dryland Farming System c. Total Area: 8294 km2 d. Ethnic Groups: Mongolian (5.34%), Manchu (1.11%), Hui (0.29%), Han (93.21%) e. Application Organization: Aohan County People’s Government, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, P.R. China f. From the National Key Organization (NFPI): Centre for Natural and Cultural Heritage (CNACH) of Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) g. Governmental and Other Partners • Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China • China Agricultural University • Department of Agriculture of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, P.R. China • Aohan County People’s Government, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, P.R. China • Department of Agriculture of Aohan County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, P.R. China • Department of Culture of Aohan County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, P.R. China • Key Laboratory of Dry Farming Agriculture, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, P.R. China h. Abstract Aohan County is located in the southeast of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. It is the interface between China’s ancient farming culture and grassland culture. From 2001 to 2003, carbonized particles of foxtail and broomcorn millet were discovered by archaeologists in the “First Village of China”, Xinglongwa in Aohan County.