La Semilla Community Farm is a production, education, and demonstration farm guided by agroecology principles. The farm serves as a public gathering space using food, fun, and spirit to build community and embodies practices that restore ecological vitality, produce high quality food to address food insecurity and lack of nutritious food consumption, and improve small farm viability as livelihoods and pathways for economic security for people in the Paso del Norte region. We strive to produce the highest quality food while providing impactful youth and community programs.

At our farm, we demonstrate sustainable farming practices appropriate for the Chihuahuan Desert environment that challenge what agriculture can look like. We engage children, youth, and families in growing food and learning about where food comes from. We are proud to involve young people in every aspect of food production, from planting to harvesting and marketing. In doing so, we are building a small farm model that can inspire a new generation of sustainable farmers, healthy food advocates, and engaged community members.

While many of our education programs target youth, we offer a number of public workshops and trainings throughout the year for beginning farmers, families, and educators. Our Farm Team leads the beginning farmer agroecology fellowship, which offers a mixture of hands-on, instructional, and collaborative learning. We also host periodic school field trips, immersion programs, and civic groups. 

In response to the ongoing global pandemic and in every attempt to keep our farmers, community, and food safe, large-scale farm events are postponed. Rest assured that we are still out in the field building soil health, growing nutritious food, and bridging the intersection between ecosystems and food systems.