new mexico CEWL (pronounced new mexico cool)

New Mexico Coalition to Enhance Working Lands (NMCEWL) is a network of groups and individuals whose purpose is to support and enhance ongoing efforts to improve the health and productivity of New Mexico working lands that support agriculture and the environment. Our focus is to increase soil health, biodiversity, and hydrologic function wherever possible.

our strategies and goals

Our goals are to acknowledge and support the good work being done on our working lands by landowners and stewards as well as the organizations supporting them, to develop funding opportunities to support them, and to provide professional development and networking opportunities.
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Through these activities we engage all New Mexico working lands organizations and agencies to identify the collective problems of land and natural resource managers and work within the coalition to solve them or engage in collaborative activities that address those needs.

NMCEWL’s strategies are to:

• Acknowledge and highlight the ongoing and diverse efforts of agricultural producers, other land and natural resource managers, organizations, and agencies currently engaged in efforts to improve working lands in New Mexico
• Through effective collaboration, increase the pace and scale at which land health improves in New Mexico.
• Engage network participants by sharing and increasing access to knowledge and resources, for success on the ground and for New Mexico communities.
• To increase all New Mexicans’ awareness of the value of enhancing working lands and help them understand how they can support agricultural producers and land managers who improve land health.
• Expand collective knowledge about what builds resilience of New Mexico working lands through peer to peer knowledge transfer.

​Thanks to The Thornburg Foundation for their sup​port of our work.

​"When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet,
and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth."
​-Rudolfo Anaya