USDA Grants Help Farmer Care for Apple Orchards, Maintain Blue Corn Lineages
After traveling down a long, narrow dirt road in Dixon, New Mexico, I eventually came to the production area for La Mesa Farms. There, more than 5,000 beautiful ears of blue corn were hung up to dry for the winter. They would soon be taken down, and the corn removed from the cob and processed for the coming season’s products.
Standing under those ears of corn, Mesa Ruiz, farmer and owner of the farm, shared a…
