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Local Agricultural Group Featured in Social Entrepreneurship Documentary Print E-mail

carrots-and-red-onionsRio Grande Valley Farmers Guild was recently featured on KNME-TV's New Mexico In Focus. In a short, four minute documentary intended to highlight local social entrepreneurs, documentarian Lillian J. Kelly caught up with three founding members of the Guild to learn more about this newly established agriculture co-operative in the Middle Rio Grande Valley. Richard Brandt with Dragon Farms, Jen Prosser with Sunstone Herbs, and John Shipley, the group's founder, speak about the region's agricultural history, the race to preserve agricultural land and an "enormous opportunity to create an abundance" with local food production. The Guild offers support to entrepreneurial farmers in the form of access to land, equipment and education through their co-operative model. 

Other local social entrepreneurs highlighted on this segment include Tierra Wools, a spinning, hand dying and hand weaving retail store and workshop located in Los Ojos, Rio Arriba County; and Southwest Creations Collaborative, a non-profit located in Albuquerque that strives to provide sewing, packaging and tile work for Spanish-speaking immigrant women. 

 

 

 

 

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