Cultivo – Community Unity Land Tradition Innovation Opportunity

Our mission is to grow food security, cultural continuity, and economic vitality in northern Taos County by inspiring, educating, and equipping the next generation.

We uphold a vision of economic change that focuses on strengthening local lives, an economy that is circular and local. An economy that is regenerative. One that invests in developing us (our human capital and capacities), promotes our well-being, and supports the conditions for community life to flourish into the future.

You can support this mission and vision by donating to our program, by buying and eating local food, and by working with us.

We are a youth farming program growing mainly at Cerro Vista Farm in northern Taos County. As a nonprofit program under Localogy, a 501(c)(3) in Questa, New Mexico, we can accept donations and seek grant funding.

Funding

Our market vegetable enterprise helps pay interns, mentors, and farm educators, cover land and tractor use, as well as vegetable wash and storage facilities. We have received grants from: Chevron Grants For Good through the Taos Community Foundation, Rural Roots funding through the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico, the LOR Foundation, the Seay Foundation, and the Questa Economic Development Fund.

What we do

• We hire, mentor and instruct paid Youth Interns and farm together at Cerro Vista Farm
• We sell produce at the Farmers Market and Sangre de Cristo Valley Market in Questa
• We work in collaboration with other educators, programs and summer camps at garden sites in Questa: Casas de Culturas and Questa Farmers Market