Come celebrate organic agriculture with your community and learn about regenerative organic soil health in pecan growing systems!
Agenda
- Field walk
- Soil biology discussion
- Regenerative organic certification and guidelines
- Lunch provided
About Lopez Legacy Farms
Once part of a much larger farm, the field day location represents the last remaining six acres of the land which sustained the Lopez family for over five generations. Known as Lopez Chile Farm with the motto “It hurts so good!”, the Lopez family grew pecans, alfalfa, cotton, corn, and a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, stewarding both the soil and a vision of community abundance.
Now, Melissa Lopez-Sullivan is leading the next chapter by protecting this land as a community-held place of nourishment, teaching, and transformation. Melissa and farm manager Shahid Mustafa are both board members of the New Mexico Agrarian Commons, pursuing a three-phase land acquisition and stewardship strategy to secure the land for collective benefit in perpetuity.
This Field Day is offered in collaboration between Rodale Institute, Taylor Hood Farms, NM Agrarian Commons and NM Healthy Soil Working Group.
