Free Farm Boxes

During this pandemic, Taos families are facing unprecedented financial distress. The Taos Community Farms collaborative partnership is meant to ease the burdens of school families, Taos Pueblo Elders and families, and grandparents raising grandchildren from the Enos Garcia Community School. We are providing them with healthy, regional, as well as hyper-local food options that support regional farmers and ranchers, whom are finding their regular markets changing. By A.I.R.E. buying and creating farm boxes from local foods, our local producers are not only supported, but able to increase capacity, therefore building food chain resilience for the future. A.I.R.E in collaboration with the local farmer and rancher cooperative, Los Rios del Norte Co-op are increasing local food production to support our community members in need.

Since April 2020 we’ve been building 100 Farm boxes each week and delivering them to families and communities in need. The Taos Pueblo receives 40 of these boxes each week. The other boxes go to families from Enos Garcia. We give all of these away for free.

We purchase the food from the Los Rios del Norte Farmer & Rancher Coop .

Each box contains enough food to make 5 to 6 adult sized meals and contains items like ground beef, cheese, apples, oranges, tomatoes, potatoes, bread, and flour.

Our farmers can count on us buying their goods and the families can count on healthy, local food each week. Volunteers are picking up, packing and delivering the food.

Geronimo had been selling in the Taos Winter Market and the Red Willow Farmers Market, both of which closed down in March because of the Covid-19 shutdown. A.I.R.E stepped in and offered him a stipend to keep baking and provide his bread to our Free Farm Box Program.