Field Trips

Travel to Northern New Mexico to explore Cooking with Kids, an innovative program bringing garden, culinary, and nutrition education to local schools. Learn how students grow, cook, and connect with fresh foods through hands-on lessons. This tour includes visits to school gardens and classrooms where the program comes to life.

Explore local food innovation on foot with this Downtown Albuquerque walking tour. Visit Three Sisters Kitchen, a nonprofit food space and test kitchen; Imperial Apartments’ rooftop garden at an affordable housing site; and Christina Kent Early Childhood Center, where young children grow and taste fresh food. Includes a tasting experience.

our the Indian Pueblo Entrepreneurial Center’s commercial kitchen, greenhouse, and hoop houses —spaces designed to support Indigenous food producers and community entrepreneurship. Enjoy a live cooking demonstration of culturally significant foods. The experience concludes with a guided visit to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center’s museum and courtyard, offering deeper insight into Pueblo history, resilience, and food traditions.

Visit Los Poblanos, a historic organic farm nestled in Albuquerque’s Rio Grande Valley. Set among lavender fields and formal gardens, this tour explores sustainable farming, artisan product-making, and the culinary program shaped by the land. Learn how preservation, design, and local agriculture come together on this iconic property.

Explore Petroglyph National Monument on this outdoor walking tour of one of North America’s largest petroglyph sites. Carved by Native peoples and early Spanish settlers, these images reflect deep cultural and spiritual connections to land. Learn how ancestral knowledge, storytelling, and place-based traditions continue to shape foodways and community identity today.

Journey to the Quarai Ruins, part of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, located 45 minutes from Albuquerque. This outdoor walking tour explores a 17th-century Spanish mission built atop ancient Pueblo lands. Discover the cultural layers of this sacred site and how it reflects centuries of Indigenous and colonial history.

Visit Silver Leaf Farms in Corrales to explore how sustainable farming meets innovation. This tour highlights how the farm blends traditional growing practices with cutting-edge technology to supply fresh, local produce to schools and communities. Learn about their growing techniques, distribution models, and role in building resilient local food systems.

Visit Wagner’s Farm in Corrales, a fourth-generation family farm serving the community since 1910. Learn about their seasonal crops, connection to local schools, and community events. This tour highlights how long-standing farms contribute to local food systems and support farm to school partnerships across generations.