Charlotte Pollard, New Mexico First deputy director, served as moderator for the Resiliency in Agriculture input gathering session.
By Mary Alice Murphy
At the Silver City meeting of the New Mexico State University County Cooperative Extension Service Agriculture Resiliency, New Mexico First joined with the extension service to seek input on a robust food and agriculture system.
Charlotte Pollard, New Mexico First deputy director, explained the catalyst for the meeting. "Thornburg Investment Management relocated to New Mexico. The company's foundation is most interested in a robust food and agricultural system, because it is important to the health and well being of residents of the state."
She said other partners working in the effort include the Cooperative Extension Service and New Mexico First, which convened the session, and the funders are the Thornburg Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, McCune Charitable Foundation, New Mexico Department of Agriculture, New Mexico Community Foundation and Presbyterian Healthcare.
"We, at New Mexico First, hold forums," Pollard said. "We write research reports and convene town halls. We work to advocate the recommendations and ideas we hear."