In collaboration with True Love Seeds, Lineage Seeds, and Vital Spaces, Mother Nature Center is offering a commemorative Juneteenth Seed Packet in Santa Fe celebrating the resilience, resistance, and foodways of the African Diaspora through 11 culturally significant seed varieties. Alongside the seeds, MNC is gifting Johnson-Su Compost to support soil microbiome restoration, honoring Juneteenth as a day of remembrance, freedom, land connection, and community celebration on the Santa Fe Plaza.

Welcome to Mother Nature Center's Elders Archive & Reference Library. We've been helping elders bring their messages and guidance to the world through video recording sessions. Elders and knowledgeable practitioners have been the primary sources of direction and implementation that we employ every day in the field, restoring ecosystems and biodiversity. In here lies wisdom, hope, and actions. https://vimeo.com/user135396369

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Grading for Rain Water Harvesting

In New Mexico, a coalition of 25 tribal, rural, youth-serving, farming, educational, and conservation partners is expanding Johnson-Su composting and healthy soil practices across farms, school greenhouses, food forests, and community gardens to support land stewardship, food production, ecological education, and biologically active soil restoration.

Global Soil Restoration Network brings together twelve urban, rural, and tribal partner organizations to regenerate soils and communities through permaculture ethics, local food production, polycultural perennial systems, and soil restoration practices that strengthen food security, rebuild topsoil, store water, and sequester carbon in response to climate change and global supply chain instability.

Over two seasons, our tree-to-table volunteer network has harvested and shared thousands of pounds of local fruit and farm produce for community meals, garden days, and local charities.

Deepening collaboration with Santa Fe County to return public lands to community care for soil regeneration, youth training, and local food growing.

Inspired by the 2019 Tree of Peace Planting and the teaching that southside Santa Fe was once “Where the Buffalo Come,” this project grew into a community effort to restore soil, biodiversity, and prairie life through Johnson-Su composting.

This project began as a book collection transformed into a reference library for sharing books while reducing consumerism and reconnecting the community with a culture of stewardship.

In response to Covid-19 and growing food security concerns, this project brought youth, volunteers, and interns together to grow and distribute thousands of food plants and seed packets while building a living seed bank rooted in the Mathematics of Seed.

Since 2019, our collaboration with Earth Guardians has empowered youth in Santa Fe and Benin to organize regenerative projects, from seed banks and bioreactors to educational crews for Mother Nature.

The 2019 Tree of Peace planting in Ogah’pogeh / Where The Buffalo Come brought community together to honor peace, inspire future plantings, and grow White Pines for the generations ahead.

Since 2018, this Santa Fe Permaculture Food Forest has served as a hands-on demonstration site for urban agriculture, rainwater harvesting, composting, beekeeping, animal husbandry, and backyard farming education.

Rooted in over two decades of training with The Tracking Project, this program mentors youth in natural living skills, healthy relationships with the Earth, and timeless arts of life passed down for future generations.