In 2025, AFSC New Mexico convened our 12th annual Farmer Gathering at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. AFSC New Mexico
AFSC envisions self-determined communities in New Mexico that have the capacity to feed and care for our children, elders, and neighbors (human, animal, and plant).
The New Mexico Program supports the empowerment of the people of New Mexico by:
· Accompanying historic and land-based communities in their work to protect access to land and water;
· Growing food and medicine;
· Increasing access to healthy food by underserved populations (including a focus on schools and Early Childhood Education centers);
· Stimulating local economies; and
· Developing grassroots leadership.
We do all this by providing training, technical support and infrastructure development, as well as policy advocacy and popular education community organizing.
Some of our accomplishments include providing grower assistance for about 400 farmers over the past decade and evolving our farmer-to-farmer training program to two community partners. AFSC has reached more than 3,000 preschoolers with local organic produce. And the New Mexico Department of Agriculture replicated our Farm to Food Bank program in the post-COVID era.
Guided by the Quaker belief in the divine light of each person, AFSC works with people of all faiths and backgrounds to challenge unjust systems and promote lasting peace.
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New Mexico: 50 Years of Work
As AFSC's New Mexico Program celebrates its 50th anniversary, watch this short film covering just a few of the many significant moments in its five decades of work.
The program marked the anniversary with a celebration featuring live music from the social justice band Lasotr@s, Navajo cuisine from Cleo’s Blue Corn Kitchen featuring local farmers’ produce, and stories from supporters and our program’s first director, Luis Torres.
New Mexico Farm to School Program
On the Issues: Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Community Resilience
