The Sour Milk of Stanley
Nina Katz visits Arroyo Runs Through It in Albuquerque’s East Mountains to learn how they turn sheep milk into creamy, tart, tangy yogurt.
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Category: Farms
Remembering Harvest
Writing of their community winemaking tradition, Brook Brooks compares fermentation to an interspecies dance party.
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Tres Niños: A Curious Eggsperiment
Shahid Mustafa of Tres Niños Farm Fresh Eggs offers a few words of caution about how to keep chickens.
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Road Runner Chile
Denise Chávez shares a meditation on a sacred New Mexico ritual: the procurement and processing of roasted green chile, preferably straight from the farmers who raise it and oversee its harvest.
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History and Hybridity
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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Meet the Farmers Growing New Mexico Grown
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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Growing the Next Generation of Farmers
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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Desert Dirt and How to Fix It
Casey Williams of Full Circle Soil Health offers prescriptions for how to heal our desert dirt.
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Mountain to Plate
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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A Day in the Life with Grass Nomads
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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What Telesfor Farm Teaches About the Future of Farming
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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Green Gold: Pistachios in New Mexico
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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Tending the Seeds of Land-Based Leadership in Northern New Mexico
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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The Once and Future River
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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Farms Too Shall Pass
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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On the Importance of Flowers
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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Acequias and the Art of Growing Vegetables without Plastic
Willy Carleton reflects not only on the risks but on the rhythms, the mentorship, the elegance of irrigating with acequias.
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Landing Softly in the Valley
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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Rare Breeds
In “Rare Breeds,” local pig farmer Zach Withers considers climate-adapted animal husbandry.
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The Abiquiú Farmers Market
Come for the Fresh Finds, Stay for the Community By Jessica & André Kempton The Abiquiú...
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