Project Overview
One Generation engaged in a planning and curriculum
development BFRDP project to build its capacity to educate, mentor, and provide
technical assistance to beginning Indigenous farmers and ranchers in New Mexico
and the southwest. This project addressed challenges, including disconnected
Indigenous agricultural traditions and knowledge of Indigenous farming
practices, a lack of profitability of Indigenous farms/ranches, and lack of
trainings specific to the needs of farmers in the southwest. One Generation
produced a comprehensive set of curricula with Indigenous language, practices,
and cultural concepts incorporated, to improve prosperity and strengthen food,
cultural, and land sovereignty for Indigenous peoples.
In partnership with the Native American Community Academy
and the University of New Mexico Community Engagement Center, 100% of BFRDP
funds were used to address the needs of socially disadvantaged and/or limited
resource beginning farmers or ranchers. During the Planning Project, One
Generation hosted six community convenings; formalized an Advisory Committee
composed of Indigenous agricultural and language experts, beginning farmers and
ranchers, and community partners; catalogued existing lessons, training
modules, and established new curriculum in five key learning strands that were
identified by our communities; incorporated intergenerational Indigenous
knowledge and practices into the core curriculum and learning activities;
tested delivery of curriculum; and both created an action plan to develop a
fellowship/residency program, as well as launched our Farmers-in-Residence
Program a year earlier than anticipated.
Number of Participants: 170
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