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I’d never been to a poultry farm before and I didn’t know quite what to expect on my visit to Pollo Real in Socorro. The truth is, it’s not that fancy; chicken wire and polyurethane sheets become lightweight yurts–trailer homes to keep the chickens dry during the winter and in spring perfectly functional brooding houses. “Everything on the farm comes from what you have laying around to make it work,” Tracey Delehanty told me, noting my curious looks.

Joel Salatin, a guru of the sustainable-food movement who has won cult status among farmers for his innovations in pastured poultry, puts...

Monday, May 1, 2006
by Emily Beenen • localflavor magazine

The folks at Los Poblanos are striding into the future by rooting themselves in the past. An organic farm, an organic lavender enterprise producing soaps, skin conditioners, and oils, an adobe inn evoking the colonial era, and a cultural center share twenty-five acres of what was a 500 acre, early 18th century Spanish land grant. Mature shade trees tower over the narrow lane that leads into the property in an area of northwestern Albuquerque still noted for open spaces and equestrian centers. In the 1930’s, Albert and Ruth Simms, both representatives in the U.S. Congress, owned Los...

Sunday, May 1, 2005
by Barry Fields • localflavor magazine