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La Montanita Cooperative A Community - Owned Natural Foods Grocery Store Nob Hill/ 7am-10pm M-S, 8am-10pm Sun. 3500 Central SE Abq., NM 87106 265-4631
HAPPENINGS FOR THE 5TH
ANNUAL
EARTH
U N M S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y E X P O &
LOBO GROWERS’ MARKET
Valley/ 7am-10pm M-Sun. 2400 Rio Grande Blvd. NW Abq., NM 87104 242-8800 Gallup/ 10am-7pm M-S, 11am-6pm Sun. 105 E. Coal Gallup, NM 87301 863-5383 Santa Fe/ 7am-10pm M-S, 8am-10pm Sun. 913 West Alameda Santa Fe, NM 87501 984-2852
BY JESSICA ROWLAND, UNM SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES PROGRAM COME CELEBRATE EARTH DAY at the University of New Mexico’s Sustainability Expo and Lobo Growers’ Market!
UNM Co-op ’N Go/ 7am-6pm M-F, 10-4pm Sat. Closed Sun., 2301 Central Ave. SE Abq., NM 87131 277-9586 Cooperative Distribution Center 901 Menual NE, Abq., NM 87107 217-2010 Administrative Staff: 217-2001 TOLL FREE: 877-775-2667 (COOP) • General Manager/Terry Bowling 217-2020 terryb@lamontanita.coop • Controller/John Heckes 217-2029 johnh@lamontanita.coop • Computers/Info Technology/ David Varela 217-2011 tech@lamontanita.coop • Perishables Coordinator/Bob Tero 217-2028 bobt@lamontanita.coop • Human Resources/Sharret Rose 217-2023 hr@lamontanita.coop • Marketing/Edite Cates 217-2024 editec@lamontanita.coop • Membership/Robin Seydel 217-2027 robins@lamontanita.coop • CDC/MichelleFranklin 217-2010 mf@lamontanita.coop Store Team Leaders: • Mark Lane/Nob Hill 265-4631 markl@lamontanita.coop • John Mulle/Valley 242-8800 jm@lamontanita.coop • William Prokopiak/Santa Fe 984-2852 willpro@lamontanita.coop • Michael Smith/Gallup 575-863-5383 michaels@lamontanita.coop Co-op Board of Directors: email: bod@lamontanita.coop • President: Martha Whitman • Vice President: Marshall Kovitz • Secretary: Ariana Marchello • Treasurer: Roger Eldridge • Lisa Banwarth-Kuhn • Kristy Decker • Jake Garrity • Susan McAllister • Betsy VanLeit Membership Costs: $15 for 1 year/ $200 Lifetime Membership Co-op Connection Staff: • Managing Editor: Robin Seydel robins@lamontanita.coop 217-2027 • Layout and Design: foxyrock inc • Cover/Centerfold: Co-op Marketing Dept. • Advertising: Sarah Wentzel-Fisher • Editorial Assistant: Sarah Wentzel-Fisher sarahwf@lamontanita.coop 217-2016 • Printing: Vanguard Press Membership information is available at all four Co-op locations, or call 217-2027 or 877-775-2667 email: robins@lamontanita.coop website: www.lamontanita.coop Membership response to the newsletter is appreciated. Address typed, double-spaced copy to the Managing Editor, robins@lamontanita.coop Copyright ©2013 La Montanita Co-op Supermarket Reprints by prior permission. The Co-op Connection is printed on 65% post-consumer recycled paper. It is recyclable.
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The Expo and Growers’ Market offers a great opportunity to interact with sustainability-minded folks at a variety of engaging displays and activities, including an alternative transportation exhibition, a green jobs fair, a growers’ market, and a bicycle auction. Learn about sustainable initiatives on campus and in the surrounding community, connect with potential employers, meet local farmers, and enjoy the fun, energetic atmosphere. The Lobo Growers’ Market portion of the Expo is organized by Sustainability Studies students who are passionate about promoting local farming and small business, and educating campus and community members about sustainable agriculture and healthy food choices. The Lobo Growers’ Market will kick off the upcoming Albuquerque area growers’ market season, and will feature numerous local growers, valueadded producers and prepared foods vendors.
april 23 Now in its fifth year, the Expo and Growers’ Market is one of the largest and most popular events on campus. This year it will be held on Cornell Mall—just east of the Student Union Building—on Tuesday, April 23, from 10am to 2pm. Everyone is invited to join in the Earth Day-inspired festivities!
To learn more about sustainable food and agriculture in New Mexico, check out the Growers’ Market Practicum class blog, ABQ Stew: New Mexico’s Food for Thought. During the weeks leading up to the event, students will post interviews with local foodshed heroes, describe successful New Mexico-based food businesses, discuss agricultural challenges and solutions in our state, and provide “how-to” guides on various sustainable topics. Additionally, during the month preceding the Expo, students will host a free series of four film screenings on campus to raise awareness about food and sustainability. Please join us for this festive and educational event! More Information contact: www.expo@unm.edu.
THE QUIVIRA COALITION: MENTORING THE NEXT GENERATION OF AGRARIAN
LEADERS
The NAP provides funding to cover the apprentice stipend and other costs associBY VIRGINIA POINTEAU ated with the apprenticeships, while mencheese griculture drives economies, creates green tors provide food and housing. To assist making job opportunities and directly affects the with our fundraising needs, together with health of our nation. With the national averthe Bar Lazy S Ranch (Los Lunas, NM), age age of US ranchers and farmers approaching 60, we will be offering two, three-day cheeseand with less than 2 percent of the US population curmaking courses taught by Vermont cheeserently dedicated to producing food, it is critical that we makers Dr. Larry and Linda Faillace, of increase the number and accessibility of training opporThree Shepherds Cheese. “Italian Cheesetunities for the next generation of food producers and land stew- making,” will be offered July 26-28, in Los Lunas, NM, and ards. All over the nation, enthusiastic young agrarians are ready “Artisanal Cheesemaking” will be offered August 2-4, in to take part in the sustainable food movement, but need oppor- Bernalillo, NM. Proceeds from both courses will benefit apprentunities to learn alongside established practitioners so that vital, tices in our program. experience-based knowledge can be transferred to a new generation of land stewards. Founded in 1997 by two conservationists and a rancher, the Quivira Coalition is a non-profit organization dedicated to Since 2008, the Quivira Coalition’s New Agrarian Program building economic and ecological resilience in western working (NAP), based in Santa Fe, partnered with ranches and farms landscapes. Quivira’s other projects include an annual conferaround the southwest to offer 8- to 12-month apprenticeships for ence, riparian and uplands demonstration restoration projects, new agrarians. Designed to support the next generation of food capacity-building collaboration with the Navajo Nation Ojo producers, this professional development program offers experi- Encino Chapter, our journal Resilience, and the promotion of ential training in all aspects of a resilient agricultural enterprise carbon ranching to mitigate climate change through regenerative and targets young people with a sincere commitment to living at food production and land stewardship. More than one million the intersection of conservation and sustainable agriculture. We acres of rangeland, 30 linear miles of riparian drainages and over work closely with carefully selected ranchers and farmers who are 15,000 people have directly benefited from Quivira’s collaboradedicated stewards of the land; practice beyond organic, regener- tive efforts. ative methods of food production; provide excellent animal care; and who are natural teachers for young agrarians. For more information on Quivira Coalition programs or to make a donation go to www.quiviracoalition.org or email virginie@quiviracoalition.org or call 505-820-2544, ext. 5.
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off CENTER’S 8th annual fundraiser ALBUQUIRKY HOUSE TOUR and LITTLE HOUSES Silent Auction
May 3-4
Take a self-guided house tour of three uniquely artistic, quirky homes in Albuquerque while giving to a great cause. The homes and sculpture gardens that are part of this year's tour range from a violin maker's shop/home overtaken by story-high dragons, an artist/hairdresser's shop/home laden with murals and mosaics and a multimedia artist/collector's home splashed with colored walls, artwork, mosaics and more!
The Albuquirky House Tour is preceded the night before by our Little Houses Silent Auction held at Sumner and Dene Creations in Art. Proceeds from both the auction and house tour ticket sales benefit OFFCenter Community Arts Project, a local social-profit 501(c)3 which provides a group open studio space, materials and skill-building workshops in the visual, literary and musical arts to the entire public—FREE OF CHARGE. May 3: Little Houses Silent Auction from 5-8pm at Sumner and Dene Creations in Art, 517 Central NW May 4: 8th Annual Albuquirky House Tour: 11am-4pm (Self-guided tour throughout Albuquerque) GET TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION at www.offcenterarts.org.