https://resiliencebox.bigcartel.com/about-us
The ABQ Resilience Box is a project created and overseen by Middle Rio Grande farmers and producers to get local food and knowledge of farms and farmers directly to their community, while engaging folx traditionally left out of the “local food movement,” and increasing circulation of local economy. It is an annual distribution of local food and products in a box, that increases engagement in and access to the local foodshed of the Middle Rio Grande Valley through mutual aid.
Founded in 2020, the ABQ Resilience box is now in its third year and plans to distribute 200 local food boxes between November 11-12th, 2022. For every box purchased, a local food box is “redistributed” in community. The boxes also include a zine produced and published by farmers filled with art, words, and recipes to further engage with our land, people, and ecology of the Middle Rio Grande Valley. In 2022, we estimate that $12,000 will be circulated (and re-circulated) in the local economy as a result of this project.
Our community partners this year are students and families at the Rio Grande High School and folks at Pueblo Resurgents. Rio Grande High School is an APS high school located in the South Valley that has an agricultural program that allows students to engage with local food practices. Pueblo Resurgents is an Indigenous owned and operated New Mexico based co-operation that is dedicated to the relationship between land and its inhabitants.
If you would like to redistribute to them directly, you can donate here.
You can contact us via email at abqresiliencebox@gmail.com and follow live project updates on our Instagram @abqresiliencebox.
This years participating vendors are:
Blue Fly Farms
The Sprouting Kitchen
Flora and Fauna Farm
Old Town Herbal
Polk’s Folly
Solarpunk Farm
Chispas Farm
Farmshark
Ashokra Farm
Yappy Dog Farm
Del Cielo Farm
North Valley Organics
Fawn & Clover
Masa Madrina
Ironwood Farm
Three Sisters Kitchen
IHATOV
Casa Fresco
Dair's Orchard
Risolana
