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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Local Agricultural Group Featured in Social Entrepreneurship Documentary
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 22:20:51 -0600


Local Agricultural Group Featured in Social Entrepreneurship Documentary
http://www.mrcog-nm.gov/show-all-ag-blog-showallagblog-211/277-local-agricultural-group-featured-in-social-entrepreneurship-documentary?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AgBlog+%28Local+Food+Blog+%3A+Mid-Region+Council+of+Governments%29

Rio Grande Valley Farmers Guild was recently featured on KNME-TV's New Mexico
In Focus. In a short, four minute documentary intended to highlight local
social entrepreneurs, documentarian Lillian J. Kelly caught up with three
founding members of the Guild to learn more about this newly established
agriculture co-operative in the Middle Rio Grande Valley. Richard Brandt with
Dragon Farms, Jen Prosser with Sunstone Herbs, and John Shipley, the group's
founder, speak about the region's agricultural history, the race to preserve
agricultural land and an "enormous opportunity to create an abundance" with
local food production. The Guild offers support to entrepreneurial farmers in
the form of access to land, equipment and education through their
co-operative model.

Other local social entrepreneurs highlighted on this segment include Tierra
Wools, a spinning, hand dying and hand weaving retail store and workshop
located in Los Ojos, Rio Arriba County; and Southwest Creations
Collaborative, a non-profit located in Albuquerque that strives to provide
sewing, packaging and tile work for Spanish-speaking immigrant women.

SEE video:

AND much more from our area in NM:
http://www.mrcog-nm.gov/agriculture-mainmenu-55/local-food-blog-mainmenu-241




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