Nominations Are Open for the
Food & Farms Day Awards!
We are so excited to open the nominations for the annual Food & Farms Day Awards. This annual awards event recognizes individuals and organizations working to strengthen our local and sustainable food systems in New Mexico.
There are five categories of nominations. Through this nomination process you can highlight the efforts of hard working farmers and ranchers, nonprofit organizations, health and conservation coalitions, and any business or individual contributing to the enrichment of our local food system.
Please submit your nominations for your favorite local food champions in the following categories:
Good Food for New Mexico
Celebrating NM Farmers’ Markets
Sowing Change
Organizations Engaged in Creating
Sustainable Food Systems
Heart of the Land
Outstanding Leadership in Farming and/or Ranching
Growing the Future
New or Young Farmers and Ranchers
Living Land
Outstanding Leadership in Land Stewardship
Nominate Your Favorite Food Champions!
Please share your stories about the people you know who are making a difference in food and farming in New Mexico!
You can submit as many nominations as you like and you can even nominate yourself!
You can find more information and fill out the nomination form here.
Nominations are open until midnight, June 30, 2024
Nominations are evaluated based on specific criteria which use a lens of justice and equity, commitment to land and culture, use of innovative and creative approaches to complex problems, and clear investment in New Mexico’s farmers, students, families, and local food allies of the future. To see a video about previous awardees, click here.
Awardees will be announced in late summer 2024 after review by a committee made up of members of the NM Food & Agriculture Policy Council who represent a diverse range of NM food producers and advocates.
Awardees will be honored at an invitation-only event in October 2024, as well as a public advocacy day, Food & Farms Day at the Legislature, at the state capitol in January/February 2025 (TBA).
To see a list of previous years’ awardees, click here. Thank you for participating in this year’s nominations!
About the Food & Farms Day Awards
New Mexico Food & Farms Day celebrates the efforts of individuals, communities, organizations, and agencies who strive to create a thriving local food, farming and ranching economy, while at the same time emphasizing that everyone in the state should have access to fresh, healthy, nutritional food.
This event provides an opportunity to highlight the intersection between health, sustainable food systems, and the economic wellbeing of our farms and ranches. It also speaks to the ways we are working together to increase affordable and healthy food access. It addresses the idea that thriving food systems encourage entrepreneurship and leadership, and reinforces the benefits of cooperation and coordination along with the intersection of informed policy making.
“The Food & Farms Day Awards are a chance to lift up farmers, ranchers, food producers and organizations who increase access to affordable, healthy food grown in New Mexico.”
– Pam Roy, Executive Director of Farm to Table and coordinator of the NM Food & Agriculture Policy Council
The New Mexico Food & Farms Day Awards are produced by Farm to Table NM and the NM Food & Agriculture Policy Council, with support from friends and collaborators, and our funders and sponsors.
To learn more go to www.nmfoodpolicy.org/food-farms-day.
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