How a State Public Bank in New Mexico can benefit Farmers
The Public Banking Act (HB 130) has been pre-filed in the 2025 legislative session
Embrace Change: Cultivating Pasture Diversity
Transitioning from a monoculture to more diverse native species is not a neat process.
What’s in that USDA seal? The ebbs and flows of organic certification in New Mexico.
Samantha Hilborn-Naluai, Rodale Institute’s New Mexico Organic Consultant demystifies organic certification.
New Mexican Grain—On The Verge of a Renaissance?
Reviving our history of grain production ties into a larger goal of improving soil health and encouraging regenerative agriculture—but infrastructure investments, education and marketing are needed.
Feeding the World: Localism, Ecological Resilience, and Farmer and Community Agency
As the global human population has rounded the corner of over 7 billion people, many claim that we will need to produce more food on existing agricultural land. This isn’t true. What we need are local, resilient food systems with autonomous farmers.
Landscape Scale Planning of Regional Regenerative Economies
Connecting the dots between forests management, planned grazing, soil health, water conservation and carbon storage.
New report examines socio-economic benefits of soil health for New Mexico farms and ranches
Report charts millennia old traditions and new strategies, analyses soil health benefits and samples on-farm measurements used to track progress.
Regenerative Agriculture –a vital Opportunity for New Mexico
Diversify and revitalize rural economies with multiple co-benefits for ecological, human and planetary health.
Investing in recovery and resilience of New Mexico’s food systems
A public bank can help our food economy expand and thrive. Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity explains how it works.
Soil health pioneer George Washington Carver
Carver recognized soil health as essential to alleviate poverty and debt of African American farmers and establish independence. His work is fundamental to regenerative agriculture as we know it today.