Community Partners

 

We are in this together…

Working with the food community of New Mexico is the basis of all we do.

 

Masa Madrina builds community through food. And a thriving local food system is literally impossible without farmers. Albuquerque is blessed with a thriving local farming & food culture. We are happy to work with these farmers, ranchers, and makers.

AT LEAST 80% of our ingredients come from local producers.

A incomplete list of farms, farmers, makers and small biz wizards we work/have worked with/ love and would 100% reccomend:

ABQ Free Fridge

ABQ Mutual Aid

ABQ Resilience Box — Albuquerque, NM

Ashokra FarmNorth Valley, NM

Chispas FarmAtrisco, NM

Downtown Growers Market — Albuquerque, NM

Farm Shark, pickles, pop-ups, & farmSouth Valley, NM

Farm of Song — South Valley, NM

Gravity Bound Brewing — Albuquerque, NM

The Kitchen Table, commercial kitchen space — Santa Fe, NM

Mago’s Farm — Albuquerque & Lemitar, NM

Metal Fingers Chocolate — Albuquerque, NM

Mudhoney, homemade ice cream— Albuquerque, NM

People, Planet, Refill, refill/ zero-waste shop — Albuquerque, NM

 Polk’s Folly FarmCedar Crest, NM

Reunity ResourcesSanta Fe, NM

Rio Grande Community FarmLos Poblanos Open Space, Albuquerque, NM

Seedpod Design — Albuquerque, NM

Space Dog Farms — Albuquerque, NM

The Sprouting Kitchen, farm-based cooking classesAlbuquerque, NM

Sunday Bagels — Albuquerque, NM

The Sunroom, personal cookingSanta Fe, NM

Three Sisters Kitchen — Albuquerque, NM

Tiny Grocer ABQ — Albuquerque, NM

Tres Hermanas Refugee FarmLos Poblanos Open Space, Albuquerque, NM

Will’s Wood Works — Albuquerque, NM

Yappy Dog Farm — South Valley, NM

Valencia Flour Mill - 100% of our baked goods are made with this New Mexico-grown and milled flour. This is the last operational mill in the entire state — Valencia, NM

 

Past Projects

ABQ
Resilience
Box

In 2020, Masa Madrina owner, Cassidy Tawse-Garcia, visioned and birthed this project with Albuquerque farmer, Ian Colburn.

The ABQ Resilience Box is a project created and overseen by Middle Rio Grande farmers and producers to get local food and knowledge of farms and farmers directly to their community, while engaging folx traditionally left out of the “local food movement,” and increasing circulation of local economy. It is an annual distribution of local food and products in a box, that increases engagement in and access to the local foodshed of the Middle Rio Grande Valley through mutual aid.

Established in 2020, the ABQ Resilience box celebrated its third annual box dispersement in November, 2022. For every box purchased, a local food box is “redistributed” in community. The boxes also include a zine produced and published by farmers filled with art, words, and recipes to further engage with our land, people, and ecology of the Middle Rio Grande Valley. In 2022, 200 boxes and $15,000 were circulated (and re-circulated) in the local economy as a result of this project.

Our community partners for 2022 were students and families at the Rio Grande High School and folks at Pueblo Resurgents. Rio Grande High School is an APS high school located in the South Valley that has an agricultural program that allows students to engage with local food practices. Pueblo Resurgents is an Indigenous owned and operated New Mexico based co-operation that is dedicated to the relationship between land and its inhabitants. 

Find more info at @abqresiliencebox.

Community Suppers @ Tiny Grocer


Tiny Grocer ABQ
Masa Madre and our community partners have come together to host the monthly Community Supper!

Community Supper is a once-a-month dinner on the third Sunday of the month that anyone can attend. We serve nourishing farm-sourced seasonal food made from scratch by our featured guest chefs using New Mexico grown ingredients. We want everyone to have access which means that Community Supper is Pay-What-You-Can (with a suggested donation of $20.) Funds raised are donated to our community partner of the month. Community Supper has previously been known as ABQ Soup Supper, but we have updated the name to reflect our broadened menu offerings.

This month, we are hosting our supper on Sunday June 27th, the FORTH SUNDAY of the month (since our usual third Sunday is Father's Day). Our guest chefs are Craig Jones & Joseph Romero of Three Sisters Kitchen. Three Sisters Kitchen is an Albuquerque based non-profit that uses the power and love of local food to create economic opportunity, improve community health, and bring our diverse communities together around the table. Learn more at ThreeSistersKitchen.org. Funds raised during the event will also go to support Three Sisters Kitchen.

 

Soup Club

A “CSA” style membership for weekly, nourishing scratch-made soup and bread. Members picked up at the kitchen, and enjoyed many different flavors over the season.

 
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Christmas Goodies

As part of our continued commitment to build equity into our food system, we will give one quart of posole (four servings) for every quart bought to ABQ Mutual Aid. That means if you order posole for pick-up either 12/18 or 12/24, you are sharing nourishment with fellow community members in need. How neat is that! We also offer posole and sourdough for the people.

 
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RESILIENCE Boxes-2020

“The only way to build hope is through the Earth.” ― Vandana Shiva

The purpose of the Resiliency Boxes is

(1) promote and educate on the local food system

(2) highlight local producers and makers by telling their stories

(3) to share a box of food with community members in need for every box purchased through ABQ Mutual Aid.

We are a group of farmers, producers, makers and ranchers living and working in the Rio Grande Valley. We believe in the deeply rooted power and love of local economies, foodways and communities. A healthy local food system thrives when there is trust, reciprocity, and resilience.

Together, we can nourish our community.

The 2020 Resiliency Boxes are a collection of local foods, products, recipes and spices to prepare a meal that celebrates the nature and flavor of the Rio Grande Valley. Everything included in the boxes is grown, made or developed locally, demonstrating the breadth and scope of our local food system, and its partners in caring for the land.

Each box includes recipes and stories from the producers and makers themselves, offering further depth to your meal. By understanding the ground from which your food comes, the hands that tended it, and the diverse partnerships that exist to get it to your plate, we’ve crafted a unique opportunity to deepen your relationship with your food system.

An essential aspect of resilience is the concept of mutual aid. That is when one person suffers, we all do. So, for every Resilience Box sold, a box will be donated to community members in need through ABQ Mutual Aid.

ABQ Mutual Aid is a coalition of community organizations and individuals working in solidarity to support community. This work is done by collecting and disbursing food to community members in need in a 100% volunteer effort. Since the effort started in March 2020 as a response to the Pandemic, over 1000 individuals and 200 families have been served. We are committed to donating 50 Resilience Boxes to ABQ Mutual Aid.

Each 2020 Resilience Box is $120 and payment is available by cash, check or Venmo. The order deadline is 5pm, Thursday November 19th.

The Box may include the following local items: (contents will be finalized and shared with you before distribution): Garlic, Winter Squash, Pie pumpkins, Pork and/or Pintos, Local, Apple Cider, Locally curated spices, Specialty Apricot Jam, Native Herbal Tea offering, Kombucha & Sparkling water, Homemade bake-yourself pie dough, Roasting vegetables; carrots, turnips and shallots, Homemade Sourdough Bread with NM flour, Seeds with a story of their origin and how to plant them, A “zine" that includes recipes, poems, stories and some background on the Good Work of ABQ Mutual Aid.

Beyond just including local products, the boxes will tell a story. A story of the resiliency of the local food economy in the Rio Grande Valley, of why we as farmers and makers choose to nourish our community, and how we choose to use November to look at how we can support and feed our community more equitably.