HOUSE MEMORIAL 2

56th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2024

INTRODUCED BY

Joanne J. Ferrary

 

 

 

 

 

A MEMORIAL

DECLARING JANUARY 25, 2024 "NEW MEXICO FOOD AND FARMS DAY" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY FOOD AND FARM INITIATIVES TOWARD ENDING HUNGER AND STRENGTHENING THE STATEWIDE FOOD SYSTEM.

 

     WHEREAS, New Mexico food and farms day celebrates the efforts of individuals, communities, organizations and agencies in creating a thriving local food, farming and ranching economy while emphasizing that everyone in New Mexico should have access to fresh, local, healthy and nutritious food; and

     WHEREAS, New Mexico food and farms day celebrates the following 2024 award recipients:

          A. the good food for New Mexico award, celebrating New Mexico farmers' markets: Aztec farmer's market, Pauline Pao and Kasey McCune;

          B. the sowing change award, for organizations engaged in creating sustainable food systems: project feed the hood, Mateo Carrasco and Zia Martinez;

          C. the heart of the land award, for outstanding leadership in farming or ranching: Acoma ancestral lands conservation corps, Zada Miller and Dominique Lowden; and cultivating Bernalillo county grow the growers program, Mari Simbana, Bernalillo county open space, and Helga Garcia-Garza, agri-cultura cooperative network/la cosecha;

          D. the growing the future award, for new or young farmers and ranchers: Chicoyole farm, Donne Gonzales, New Mexico acequia association los sembradores farmer training program;

          E. the living land award, for outstanding leadership in land stewardship: dream New Mexico, San Antonio del Rio Embudo, Joseluis Ortiz y Muniz; and

          F. the New Mexico grown golden chile award, honoring all schools, senior centers and early child care centers that purchase New Mexico grown and raised products from farmers and ranchers;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that January 25, 2024 be declared "New Mexico Food and Farms Day" in the house of representatives in celebration of community food and farm initiatives toward ending hunger and strengthening the statewide food system; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be transmitted to the board chair of farm to table and the governing committee chair of the New Mexico food and agriculture policy council.

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