In the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Anjel Ortiz focused on fulfilling Zitro Farms’ mission of educating younger generations on how to eat locally grown and make a living off the land. With $6,000 in grant funding from the New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association’s COVID-19 Local Supply Chain Response Fund,…

By building strong partnerships with local farmers and organizations, Agriculture Implementation Research & Education (AIRE) addressed the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic challenges affecting farms and families through their expanded Growing Community Now CSA, with support from a $15,000 grant from the New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association’s (NMFMA) COVID-19 Local Food Supply…

For 25 years, Albuquerque’s Downtown Growers’ Market (DGM), centrally located in the popular Robinson Park, has featured one of the largest weekly gatherings of local food producers in the city. In 2020, DGM’s efforts to continue the market in a COVID-safe manner with public health orders restricting the market size caused…

With a $10,000 grant from the New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association’s (NMFMA) COVID-19 Local Food Supply Chain Response Fund, the National Center for Frontier Communities (NCFC) responded to the pandemic last summer by forging an aggregated CSA (community supported agriculture) to support farmers, families in need, and food pantries in…

“Consciousness, relationships, justice, skills and leadership, community empowerment, positive social change, chickens, urban warrior corn, soil regeneration,” Juan Reynosa, deputy director of the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP), provided this answer to the question: “What do you grow?” Based in Albuquerque, SWOP member-based food and social justice organization has been serving…

Even before the socioeconomic challenges associated with COVID-19 appeared, the Agri-Cultura Network of Albuquerque’s South Valley — a farmer-owned food brokerage dedicated to building New Mexico’s local food economy through regenerative agriculture and food justice — wove itself into the very fabric of its community. During a normal year, Agri-Cultura…

A recent partnership between the Questa Farmers Market and the North Central Food Pantry has been providing fresh, local produce to families hardest hit by the recent economic challenges in Questa, New Mexico. With an $8,000 grant they received from the New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association’s (NMFMA) COVID-19 Local Food…

For Albuquerque’s MoGro Mobile Grocery, a nonprofit mobile grocery project and sliding-scale CSA serving vulnerable New Mexico families, the ongoing food access crisis caused by the pandemic is an urgent call-to-action. Armed with $13,000 in grant support from the New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association’s (NMFMA) COVID-19 Local Food Supply Chain…

“A grandmother raising three grandchildren and working night shifts so she can be with them during the day…a single parent working an essential yet minimum-wage job…an hourly employee who had plentiful work one day and none the next.” This is how Juliana Ciana describes recipients of Reunity Resources’ food donation…

It’s mid-September in Albuquerque’s North Valley. This time of year, Tres Hermanas Farm’s crop fields are normally dotted with volunteers and refugee farmers hard at work. But six months into an ongoing pandemic, the fields are quiet. And yet the farm is arguably feeding more people than ever before. Thanks…

Amidst the normal hustle of a food pantry—through a tight maze of shelved food, refrigerators, and freezers, volunteers in a constant state of motion gather food for families and homeless clients—Bienvenidos Outreach in Santa Fe supplies fresh, local food in innovative ways. Since 1989 they not only have been providing…