Farmer-to-Farmer Hub

A venue to connect farmers with the Native Crop Toolkit and each other.

We are launching a collaborative Native Crop Toolkit at 16 small farms along the Rio Grande River. The Native Crop Toolkit aims to increase dryland farming resiliency by utilizing on-farm conservation practices in the Rio Grande River Watershed in central New Mexico. 

The Toolkit incorporates conservation strategies (habitat restoration, native seeds, pollinator resources) into traditional agricultural practices (production fields, cover crops, hedgerows), resulting in four Native Crop Tools: native seed production fields, native cover crops, pollinator hedgerows, and habitat restoration. Farmers can customize Tools and species that best suit their land, needs, capacity, and expertise, while benefiting from fewer resource inputs and a farmer-to-farmer (F2F) hub.

If you’re a farmer interested in participating, please fill out the Farm Assessment Form and email to sarahdesimone@appliedeco.org.

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Events

meetings, Webinars, workshops, and farm tours

Upcoming

• Tuesday, May 12 at 2 pm (MDT): F2F Hub Webinar - Introduction to the Native Crop Toolkit

  Register here

• July 2026: F2F Hub Webinar - Hedgerows

• Fall 2026: Native Crop Toolkit Workshop - Hedgerows

Resources

Coming soon!

native crop toolkit technical guide

video chapters

We couldn’t do this work without our community. Thanks to our project partners.