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DECEMBER 2015

Agriculture Collaborative December Meeting

Bernalillo County’s Green Thumb—The Parks and Recreation Agriculture Plan and Feedback from You

  1. John Barney,  Planning Manager with Bernalillo County’s Parks and Recreation will share info on the County’s Open Space Plan—How this plan addresses agriculture production on open space properties, capacity needs, and the overall health and wellness of the agriculture corridor;
  2. Facilitated discussion and feedback from the community on the County’s plan, and other ideas for utilizing public open space to build producer capacity and otherwise strengthening the local food system.

Please join us for this informative discussion and help assure that the County’s planning includes your voice. 

*Note New Date for Agriculture Collaborative:  Thursday December 17, 2015 from 9-10:30 a.m. MRCOG Offices, 809 Copper Avenue, NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102

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With Squash Blossom, Santa Fe woman aims to make it easy to buy local

By Tantri Wija
Reprinted with permission from the Santa Fe New Mexican

The holidays are upon us, and you know what that means: errands. Just as the roads get terrible, we all hop into our cars and start whizzing around town, fighting over downtown parking or tromping through slushy parking lots well after dark to stand in line at the post office, acquire decorations, dinner ingredients for dozens of guests and, of course, buy gifts. For people who normally like to put in the effort to buy fresh local produce at the farmers market or patronize Santa Fe’s ever-growing plethora of small food shops, the temptation this time of year to forget all that and buy everything at once at the grocery store can be strong. We want to buy local, but our kids are out of school, our relatives are yelling at us, and we’re busy.
 
Nina Yozell-Epstein has the solution to that problem, at least.
Read full story

Take another look at LandLink


Post your land or farming needs on the newly reformatted New Mexico LandLink site:

www.landlinknm.org


December is a great time to list your property on the LandLink site and/or, join those who have listed their interest in working on agriculture lands. Spring will be here before we know it and the scramble for getting our ag lands back into production begins—if you haven’t already been farming through the winter months. 
 
Plowed field with cottonwoodsTake another look at LandLink and let’s keep this valuable resource alive and vibrant.

Visit LandLink @ www.landlinknm.org
Visit LandLink

Check out this month's calendar of "local food" events!

 

This is a community calendar. If you have an event please send us an email and let us know the details. We’ll put it on the calendar. Thanks!!


Local Food Calendar @ localfoodnm.org

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