2024 True Heroes: Nicole Gallegos
MANY OF NICOLE GALLEGOS’S patients, who have just received diagnoses for conditions like Parkinson’s disease, dementia, or aphasia after a stroke, come to her during the most difficult days of their…
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2024 True Heroes: Joaquín Luján
FOR JOAQUÍN LUJÁN, delivering freshly roasted green chiles to his neighbors is about more than just filling empty bellies. It’s an organizing strategy. “You start talking about green chile,” he…
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Fall into Fun at McCall’s
FOR SIX WEEKS every fall, people from throughout New Mexico flock to McCall’s Pumpkin Patch and Haunted Farm, in Moriarty, to pick pumpkins, wander the corn maze, taste delicious treats, and, if…
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Cozy Up to Comfort at Tierra Wools
WALKING ONTO Tierra Wools’s rustic farmhouse porch is like entering an open-air art gallery. Handwoven Southwestern rugs hang from the eaves, their vibrant colors and patterns contrasting against wood…
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Leading Through Feeding
HELGA GARCIA-GARZA DIDN’T KNOW what to think when representatives of the James Beard Foundation called. “I thought that was for people doing magic with food,” says Garcia-Garza, executive director of…
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Dig Deep into Zuni Farming Traditions
FROM THE FRONT, Ts’uyya Farm looks like an unassuming adobe in Albuquerque’s South Valley. But as I follow farmer Reyna Banteah behind the terra-cotta-colored walls, she reveals an agricultural oasis…
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