New Mexico

FoodCorps

FoodCorps is a national service organization that seeks to reverse childhood obesity by increasing vulnerable children’s knowledge of, engagement with, and access to healthy food. The centerpiece of our work is an AmeriCorps public service program that recruits young leaders for a year of service in high-obesity, limited-resource communities.

We specialize in:

We can also help you with:

  • Direct Marketing Assistance
  • Resources for Beginning Farmers

We work in these areas:

  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • Connecticut
  • Iowa
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Mississippi
  • Montana
  • New Mexico
  • North Carolina
  • Oregon

Center of Southwest Culture, Inc.

Through our Community Development Center (CODECE), we provide Indigenous and Latino farmers with technical assistance through one-on-one consultations, trainings and ongoing support in business and financial functions and management, implementation of regenerative organic farming techniques, and branding and marketing strategies.

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We work in these areas:

  • New Mexico

Rocky Mountain Farmers Union (RMFU)

Rocky Mountain Farmers Union is a progressive, grassroots organization dedicated to: achieving profitability for family farmers and ranchers; promoting stewardship of land and water resources; delivering safe healthy food to consumers; and strengthening rural communities through education, legislation and cooperation. RMFU also runs a Cooperative Development Center.

We specialize in:

  • Activism & Organizing
  • Direct Marketing Assistance
  • Farm Energy Options
  • Financial & Business Planning

We can also help you with:

  • Conservation Programs
  • Farm Land Access & Succession Planning
  • Funding Opportunities for Farmers
  • Legal Help & Mediation Services

We work in these areas:

  • Colorado
  • New Mexico
  • Wyoming

International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology (iCAST)

iCAST offers turn-key services in sustainable agriculture focused on Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Waste Utilization. iCAST specializes in a) technical and economic feasibility analysis, b) business plan development, c) process design, d) project implementation and management, and e) grant funding and market-based financing. iCAST partners with farmers and rural communities to develop solutions that are sustainable. iCAST projects use local resources for local benefit.

We specialize in:

  • Conservation Programs
  • Farm Energy Options
  • Financial & Business Planning
  • Funding Opportunities for Farmers

We can also help you with:

  • Direct Marketing Assistance
  • Industrial Ag Issues
  • Institutional & Wholesale Markets
  • Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support
  • Resources for Beginning Farmers
  • Resources for BIPOC Farmers
  • Resources for Farmworkers / Migrant Workers
  • Resources for LGBTQIA Farmers
  • Resources for Tribal Farmers & Ranchers
  • Resources for Women Farmers

We work in these areas:

  • Colorado
  • Kansas
  • New Mexico
  • Wyoming

American AgCredit

American AgCredit is part of the Farm Credit System. American AgCredit provides financial services to agriculture in California, Colorado, Nevada, Kansas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, as well as to capital markets customers in 30+ states.

We specialize in:

  • Funding Opportunities for Farmers

We can also help you with:

We work in these areas:

  • California
  • Colorado
  • Kansas
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Oklahoma

Western SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education)

Western SARE is one of four regional offices that run the Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education program, a nationwide grants and education program to advance sustainable innovation to American agriculture.

We specialize in:

  • Conservation Programs
  • Funding Opportunities for Farmers
  • Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support

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We work in these areas:

  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Montana
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Oregon
  • Utah
  • Washington
  • Wyoming

Western Rural Development Center

The Western Rural Development Center is one of four regional centers funded by the USDA-CSREES to strengthen the capacity of local citizens and rural communities.

We specialize in:

  • Conservation Programs
  • Farm Energy Options

We can also help you with:

  • Crisis Assistance
  • Direct Marketing Assistance
  • Funding Opportunities for Farmers
  • Industrial Ag Issues
  • Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support
  • Resources for Beginning Farmers

We work in these areas:

  • Arizona
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Idaho
  • Montana
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Oregon
  • Utah
  • Washington
  • Wyoming

Ogallala Commons

Ogallala Commons is a nonprofit community development network, offering leadership and education to reinvigorate the commonwealth that forms the basis of all communities, both human and natural.

We specialize in:

We can also help you with:

  • Institutional & Wholesale Markets

We work in these areas:

  • Colorado
  • Kansas
  • Nebraska
  • New Mexico
  • Oklahoma
  • South Dakota
  • Texas
  • Wyoming

Holistic Management International (HMI)

Holistic Management International is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate people to manage land for a sustainable future. Our programs serve to improve the land, preserve water resources, train agricultural producers, and enhance and sustain lives in ways that are meaningful, productive, and profitable. Major programs include: Kids on the Land, Gen Next, Beginning Farmers and Ranchers, Future Farms and Ranches, Ag Town Turnaround, and Professional Development (for land resource management).

We specialize in:

  • Conservation Programs
  • Financial & Business Planning
  • Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support
  • Resources for Beginning Farmers

We can also help you with:

  • Resources for BIPOC Farmers
  • Resources for Farmworkers / Migrant Workers

We work in these areas:

  • California
  • Connecticut
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts
  • National
  • New Hampshire
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • Texas
  • Vermont
  • Virginia

United Way of New Mexico

The United Way of New Mexico offers a bare bones systems of referrals and information. They do not directly offer emergency services but provide free information and referrals to health and human services, government agencies, and community based organizations through their 211 hotline (505.245.1735). Most of the help they offer is based in central NM.

We specialize in:

We can also help you with:

  • Crisis Assistance

We work in these areas:

  • New Mexico