Congratulations to all of the winners and contributors at this year’s Golden Chile Award winners.
This year’s Golden Chile Award winners are:
- Project Feed the Hood: Sowing Change Award for Organizations Engaged in Creating Sustainable Food Systems
- Acoma Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps: Heart of the Land Award for Outstanding Leadership in Farming and Ranching
- Aztec Farmers’ Market: Good Food for New Mexico Award Celebrating Farmers’ Markets
- Chicoyole Farm and Donne Gonzales: Growing the Future Award for New/Young Farmers and Ranchers
- Cultivating Bernalillo County Grow the Growers Program: Heart of the Land Award for Outstanding Leadership in Farming and Ranching
Compilation – 2024 Food & Farms Day Awardees.mp4 from Helen Henry on Vimeo.
Video produced by the New Mexico Food & Agriculture Policy Council, with special thanks to its sponsors: New Mexico School Nutrition Association, Farm to Table, the New Mexico Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute, the Thornburg Foundation, Video Magic, Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity, FoodPlay Productions: Turning Kids on to Healthy Habits, New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association, Reunity Resources, and the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union.
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