County: Bernalillo

Reference: # 114

Acreage: Several acres spread over mulitiple locations in and around the Albuquerque area.

Date Available: September 2010

Vision:  Opportunities for growers cooperative, innovative collaboration, professional exchange and development, journeymanship and apprenticeship training, bringing together various sites, edible plant collections, subsistence and market horticulture operations, ecological design and permaculture practices, architectural/ building restoration and conversion projects, and a long-cultivated base of knowledge and experience.

We seek people who are ready to work and learn together across a holistic diversity of local self-reliance and threshold sustainability initiatives, offer reliability and self-motivation in the face of hard work with delayed gratification, and/ or bring land, water, plant genetics, specialty skills, collective action, and mutual support into the mix.

We are La Orilla Farm, ecOasys high desert, Gardenshare network, Edible Plantscapes nursery, and Sembrando Salud non-profit.

Housing: Not currently (although if you are interested in building, as well as agriculture, there is a possibility of helping to construct intern housing).

Terms: Negotiable trade for knowledge

Contact: localfoodnm@mrcog-nm.gov or 505-724-3619