Rooted in Place
SANTA CLARA PUEBLO artist Roxanne Swentzell’s 30-year exploration into permaculture farming techniques gave rise to the Pueblo Food Experience, a program that promotes a pre-Columbian diet of simple…
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Posts From: January 2017
One of Our 50 Is Missing | January 2017
THE GREEN (AND RED) HOUSE After living in New Mexico for 12 years, Andrea Hill and her family moved to a rural part of Wisconsin where they knew no one. That didn’t stop residents from asking the…
Read MoreThe River of Life | Books | January 2017
RIO A Photographic Journey down the Old Río Grande By Melissa Savage (editor), with essays by Wiliam DeBuys, Rina Swentzell, G. Emlen Hall, Juan Estevan Arellano, Estalla Leopold, Norma Elia Cantu…
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Trip of the Month: Old Fort Union
Above: The eroded buildings at Fort Union National Monument still stand on New Mexico’s high plains northeast of Las Vegas. Learn about family-friendly events and activities at nps.gov/foun. January…
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The Calling
THE MORNING SUN is just warming up Mount Taylor when 44 students gather in the chapel at St. Joseph Mission School, east of Grants. Gregorian chant flows from an iPod as the students—some so young…
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It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Sting
YOU CAN LEARN a lot about a state, I would posit, by considering the attributes of its official insect. State insect ? you ask. Is that even a thing? Indeed it is. Rhode Island’s is the American…
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The Godfather
AND WITH ULTIMA came the owl … On a starry night in September 2016, I am camping near the New Mexico–Colorado state line and reading Bless Me, Ultima in the shadowy light of a kerosene lamp. I am…
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Gotta Have Heart | Editor's Letter | January 2017
WHEN WE STARTED planning the cover for this special theme issue, art director Edie Dillman said it’s about time we commission an original piece of art—it’s been five years since Douglas Magnus created…
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Recipe: Currant Pie
From the Rooted in Place article in the January 2017 issue. Currant Pie Serves 6 1 1/2 cups corn masa 1/2 cup amaranth flour 1 1/3 teaspoons salt 2 eggs 1/2 cup plums (dried and pitted) 2 cups…
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