IN DOWNTOWN RATÓN, across from the stately brick railway station, Jacob Blackwell is arranging organic vegetables and minding the register inside the Heirloom Shop. With its emerald awning and vintage…
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KATEE KLEIBER got her start tending bees in Amarillo, Texas. “I kept hearing about the bees being in trouble,” she says. “So beekeeping seemed like a really cool way to give back and help humanity.”…
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“FOOD IS MY PASSION,” says Ashley Trebitowski, founder of Toasted Albuquerque. “I travel for food, I cook for food, I live for food.” But until last summer, Trebitowski wasn’t in the business of food…
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“BACK IN THE 1980s AND 1990s, Nob Hill was the local retail destination in Albuquerque,” explains Jacob Fox. “But brick-and-mortar retail hasn’t been a super viable business option for a lot of…
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WITH MORE THAN A HUNDRED Route 66–era buildings and a necklace of neon bling along the 18-mile Route 66 stretch known as Central Avenue, Albuquerque could easily be considered the Route 66 capital of…
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MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO, Hannah Humpheries left her home in Wales and traveled, first by boat, then by train, finally by carriage, to the booming city of San Francisco. There, she made her living by…
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WHEN JACQUELENE MCHORSE became a new mother, she and her husband, Angelo, often found themselves frustrated in the pharmacy aisle. “In Taos, there aren’t a ton of options for buying stuff,” she says…
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1 STONEWARE SAKE CARAFE, $70 Heather Rae Morton of Black Phoebe Ceramics, in Las Cruces, describes her minimalist stoneware as a canvas for her true artistic passion—glazes. “I spend most of my time…
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JENNIFER HERNANDEZ never felt like she fit in with the traditional New Mexico art scene. “I didn’t think my work would make sense in the normal spaces,” she says of her graphic folk-art-inspired…
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A DINÉ WOMAN wields a lightsaber on a black and turquoise T-shirt by Reclaim Designs. She is powerful, elegant, and a little intimidating, not unlike the Indigenous matriarchs she represents. Another…
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