BFRDP Projects

Improving Climate Resilience in the Chihuahuan Desert: Strengthening a Community of Practice for Beginning Farmers
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Award Amount: $744,549
Grant Program: 2023 Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program Education Projects
Project Director: Julieta Saucedo
Email: julieta@lasemillafoodcenter.org
Organization: La Semilla Food Center

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Project Overview

Throughout this project, La Semilla Food Center’s long-term goal has been to advance a regional practice of climate smart agriculture solutions while removing individual and systemic obstacles for socially-disadvantaged and colonia farmers of the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion and providing them with opportunities to prosper. Anchored by La Semilla Community Farm and building on a growing network of small farmers through education, mentoring, and technical assistance, this project has been working to create regionally distributed training opportunities and a community of practice that is impacting Beginning Farmers and Ranchers.

Number of Participants: 64

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