In a brief history of local grape growing and winemaking, Joe Scala talks with local growers and winemakers about the merits of hybrid grapes—and the challenges of working with them in a region long dominated by European vines.
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Sophie Putka sits down with three suppliers for New Mexico Grown to learn about their path to agriculture and the ongoing challenges in getting their produce to the people who need it most.
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Traveling to Shiprock, Ungelbah Dávila visits with a visionary duo who started their own nonprofit in order to build on—and share—their success by training other Native farmers and food entrepreneurs.
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Casey Williams of Full Circle Soil Health offers prescriptions for how to heal our desert dirt.
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In honor of the desert mountains and grasslands we call home, we’re sharing stories behind two plates featuring locally raised chicken and beef.
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In conversation with a new-generation cattle rancher, we tread the line between domestic and wild, gaining a fresh respect for cows along the way.
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Reporting from a joyous young farm in Albuquerque’s South Valley, Nina Katz considers one of the primary hurdles in starting a farm: acquiring the land itself.
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Tom Hudgens tells the tale of the pistachio’s slow but sure infiltration of the Tularosa Basin and the American palate.
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Poet and Taos native Victoriano Cárdenas talks acequias, farming, and genízaro identity with Dixon grower and mayordomo Joseluis “Agua y Tierra” Ortiz y Muñiz.
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Reporting from Gallup to the banks of the Zuni River, Sarah Mock shares modern approaches to the ancient art of water collection in communities contending with the repercussions of federal acts.
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In an exploration of farm succession planning, Sarah Mock finds ranchers and farmers considering the lives of land that will outlast them.
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With farmer Zoey Fink, we meet members of the New Mexico Flower collective, whose work to grow a supply chain for local blooms is also work to support local bees.
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Willy Carleton reflects not only on the risks but on the rhythms, the mentorship, the elegance of irrigating with acequias.
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Northern New Mexico acequias are not only utilitarian but also spiritual, their systems of governance deeply imbued with practices that simultaneously protect the waterways’ health and healthy community relations.
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In “Rare Breeds,” local pig farmer Zach Withers considers climate-adapted animal husbandry.
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Come for the Fresh Finds, Stay for the Community By Jessica & André Kempton The Abiquiú...
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Full Circle Mushrooms, the 2023 Local Hero for Farm, Greater New Mexico, specializes in gourmet mushrooms, combining traditional knowledge with a system that produces healthy food while regenerating the soil.
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Riding alongside farmer-teacher Willy Carleton through the Albuquerque-bound Village of Los Ranchos, we take a tour of very small farms, each in its way continuing the state’s long tradition of small-scale farming.
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Weaving apprentice leticia gonzales talks with sheep farmer Elena Miller ter-Kuile about regenerating land in the Mountain West.
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Briana Olson sets out to answer the question “Where is all the New Mexico–raised chicken?”
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