New Mexico’s Shroom Boom
INSIDE THE FORMER STAHMANNS COUNTRY Store, in the heart of New Mexico’s pecan country, I can see a kind of alchemy is at work. Where metal shelves once sold locally grown nuts, grow bags now sprout…
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Tag: Agriculture
Faces of the Fair: Rancher Harper Dunn
WHILE GROWING UP ON HER family’s ranch outside of Corona, Harper Dunn jumped into the agricultural youth organization FFA as a seventh grader, participating in horse judging competitions and showing…
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Giant Pumpkin Steals the Show
ALLEN CLARK MIGHT describe himself as a backyard gardener, but there’s nothing amateurish about his results. In 2024, he brought a 974-pound pumpkin to the state fair, winning not one but three blue…
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How New Mexico Grows Its Beer
ON A BLUSTERY MAY AFTERNOON, Cory Murchy stands amid a maze of trellises at the hop farm at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, a living history museum south of Santa Fe. “By late June, this will be a sea…
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A Tale of Two Crops: Chile vs. Cannabis
FOR A MOMENT, in the honeyed early morning light of the Española Valley, it’s quiet—quiet enough to hear the Río Grande gurgling just beyond the edge of the fields, quiet enough to make out the…
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Bringing Tradition to the Table
FOR FELIX MAURO TORRES, food isn’t just a business, it’s a connection to culture, heritage, and the lessons he learned growing up in Albuquerque’s North Valley. As the founder of Southwest Heritage…
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The Magic of Chimayó
MAGICAL REALISM WAS NOT SIMPLY a literary genre when I spent summers in Chimayó during my youth. It was a lived experience. I’d venture into the hills behind my grandmother’s home, just a stone’s…
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