La Cosecha
Through the La Cosecha initiative, our Community Education Program offers opportunities for community members to engage in health and heritage-based community gardening and culinary practices. Through community-based and culturally significant programming, staff provide engaging, hands-on learning experiences to promote local and sustainable food systems.
Cultiva Institute
The Cultiva Institute is a kickstarter training for folks in our communities who are interested in starting a community garden. During a 2-day training, participants will learn how to plan a community garden, gain essential basic gardening skills based on sustainable dryland growing practices, and learn valuable gardening and cooking education facilitation skills while visiting different community gardens across the Paso del Norte region.
La Semilla has implemented a fee structure based on a sliding scale. All individuals, neighborhood groups, organizations, education and government entities are welcome to register. Spaces are limited and on a first come, first serve basis.
Stay tuned for details about upcoming Cultiva Institute sessions!
Pláticas
As part of our Pláticas program, participants gather to share and learn about vegetable gardening and nutritionally wholesome food practices that celebrate regional culture and identity. Participants discover how the plants growing in your garden can be turned into delicious and nutritious meals and gain tools to advocate against and identify harmful conventional food system practices.
These events are free and open to the public. Spaces are limited and on a first come, first serve basis.
Stay tuned for details about upcoming Pláticas!
Veggie Scripts Boxes
We partner with our sister program Farm Fresh to bring locally sourced boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables at no cost to participants who receive a Produce Prescription through one of one of our partner clinics. Our clinical partners are two Federally Qualified Health Centers: La Clinica de Familia’s PSR Program in Doña Ana County, NM and Centro San Vicente in El Paso, TX. To be eligible to receive a Produce Prescription you must be at or below the federal poverty line and be predisposed or diagnosed with a diet-related illness. If you are interested in participating, you must meet all of the criteria stated above and be a patient of one of our clinical partners.
