Award for Española Farmers Market- January 2019

                                               Sabra Moore, Market Manager; Steve Jaramillo, Board President;
                                               Norma Narvarro, Market Assistant Manager; receive award for 
                                               Espanola Farmers Market honored as Best Farmers Market 2019 
                                               during Food and Farms Day at the NM State Legislature, 
                                               January 24, 2019. Photo: Marguerite Kearns.

Best Farmers Market of the Year for New Mexico-Join us in the celebration on January 24, 2019!

Espanola Farmers Market will be honored as BEST FARMERS’ MARKET OF THE YEAR  on Thursday, January 24, 2019 at the New Mexico State Capitol during Food & Farms Day, an event sponsored by Farm to Table. Join us at the Legislature for the awards ceremony in the Rotunda of the Roundhouse from 10 am- 12 noon.

There are several categories of awards during this 10am- 12 noon ceremony:

● Farmer of the Year:                                     Buzz Graves, Graves Farm & Garden, Chaves

●Outstanding Organization of the Year:       La Montanita Food Cooperative, Chad Jones, Board President and colleagues

●Educational Program/Educator of the Year Aldo Leopold Charter School, Silver City

●School Garden of the Year                           James Elementary, Portales

●School Food Service of the Year                 Marie Johnston, Farmington

 

●Farmers’ Market of the Year                         Espanola Farmers Market, Espanola

●Double Up Food Bucks Champion of the Year   Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute, Santa Fe

Espanola Farmers Market is inviting farmers and friends to join us at the Capitol on January 24^th to celebrate this recognition of the hard and joyful work of farming and providing healthy local food to our community.Espanola Farmers Market is inviting farmers and friends to join us at the Capitol on January 24^th to celebrate this recognition of the hard and joyful work of farming and providing healthy local food to our community.

On the rostrum to receive the award for the Española Farmers Market on January 24th will be Sabra Moore, long-time and much-loved market manager, along with Steve Jaramillo and Norma Navarro. Jaramillo is a native of El Guache. He is a long-time vendor at Espanola Farmers Market who brings a variety of organic vegetables cultivated in his fields and hoop house in Espanola. He returned to farming after retiring from work as an electronics designer for Los Alamos National Laboratory, and he is currently President of the Espanola Farmers Market Board of Directors.

Norma Navarro has worked as Assistant Manager of Espanola Farmers Market for over seven years. She also works as a doula with the Birth of My Heart program of Tewa Women United. She is a certified acupuncturist and an accomplished weaver.