Community Conservation
Local Foods Coalitions
The land trust holds the easement on Rio Grande Farm Park, just four blocks from downtown Alamosa, accessible by trails along the Rio Grande.
The park provides plots of irrigated land to families and new farmers, including immigrant farm workers from Central America, and is a farm incubator. At the end of the three-to-five-year tenure the park staff helps them find funding opportunities to start up their own operations. This is the only farm incubator in the San Luis Valley.
Additional sites to review:
tpl.org
riograndefarmpark.org
slvlocalfoods.org
Colorado Open Lands
Lakewood, CO
Partners: San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition, Rio Grande Farm Park, Trust for Public Land
Staff: 2 FTE implementing program at Rio Grande Farm Park
Carmille Garcia