High altitudes make for short growing seasons.
Years of subdivision have left behind small parcels of farmland that often can't sustain the region's families, and development and soaring land prices have made it hard for some operations to continue. We also work with grassroots agricultural organizations and small marketing and entrepreneurial groups. Kellogg recently extended the five-year project for another three years. The project is housed at NMSU's Sustainable Agricultural Science Center at Alcalde. In sustainable agriculture, farmers work to keep their operations running in the present while maintaining their natural resources for the future.