We are a nonprofit program of Localogy, a 501(c)(3) in Questa, New Mexico. Our mission is to grow food security, cultural continuity, and economic vitality in northern Taos County by inspiring, educating, and equipping the next generation.
We work to revitalize local agriculture, promote education, economic opportunities and food equity, and contribute meaningfully to our local food system.
We began to do this work as a program in 2024, although so much came before. We are part of a longer lineage and we aspire to keep younger generations, especially youth, engaged in growing food in northern New Mexico.
We hire, mentor and instruct paid Youth Interns and farm together at Cerro Vista Farm. We sell produce at the Farmers Market and Sangre de Cristo Valley Market in Questa.
At Cerro Vista, farmer Daniel Carmona is sharing his decades of locally adapted farming experience with a regular cohort, ages 10-17, along with their mentors.

We work in collaboration with other educators, programs and summer camps at garden sites in Questa: Casas de Culturas and Questa Farmers Market (QFM), each demonstrate different agricultural practices, and each offer educational opportunities with a focus on permaculture.


QFM has managed and improved a market site since 2018 on land owned by the Questa Economic Development Fund (QEDF). QFM staff, youth, community members and volunteers have established gardens and a food forest and reconnected the land to the acequia system.


Our vision
Mornings at Cerro Vista Farm begin with farmer Carmona producing a post-it note from his shirt pocket with a list of duties for the day. This list represents his intimate knowledge; the skill and awareness that guide the farm operations. The list is what we are passing down, our goal is for interns to be producing it in time. Farming is not learned in one day, or even one season. It requires years of trial and error, of witnessing first hand the ups and downs. Each day with Cultivo operating at local farms and gardens is a day that will be passed on to the next cohort of growers, food producers and teachers. Our project is bolstering a sense of local pride and underscoring the identity of the region, one with deep agricultural roots.