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 mentor youth through hands-on agricultural education. Throughout the growing season, mentors, apprentices, and interns work side-by-side to plant, harvest, and market food, supporting our community’s cultural and economic wellbeing while strengthening the local food system.
We uphold a vision of economic change rooted in local resilience: an economy that is circular and regenerative, one that invests in human capacity, promotes wellbeing, and nurtures the conditions for community life to flourish for generations to come.
Learn more about our work from this short film produced by the LOR Foundation.
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 mentorship and education program for young farmers, growing food 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: the Taos Community Foundation, Rural Roots funding through the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico, the LOR Foundation, the Seay Foundation, the Uplift Fund through the Taos Ski Valley, the Questa Economic Development Fund and support from Kit Carson Electric Cooperative.
What we do
- We hire, mentor and support paid Youth Interns and Apprentices and farm together at Cerro Vista Farm
- We sell produce at Questa Farmers Market and Sangre de Cristo Valley Market
- We work in collaboration with local educators, nonprofit programs and summer camps at garden sites at Questa Farmers Market ~ Community Garden & Food Forest Project