Desert Dirt and How to Fix It

We may have gotten a lot of rain this summer, but don’t be fooled: New Mexico is still a tough place to grow crops and has a lot of challenges with soil health. In our Land issue, Robin Babb talks with Casey Williams, owner of Full Circle Soil Health, about how to heal the dirt in our dry climate.

Williams’s “number-one prescription” is high-quality compost full of a diversity of microorganisms — “kind of like an inoculation, like a probiotic for the human gut” — to help remediate the effects of climate change and industrial agriculture.

Learn more about how to tend to soil in our gardens and farms in:
Desert Dirt and How to Fix It

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Explore Culinary Uses of Tea

Discover the many creative uses of tea — whether black, green, white, or oolong. This Carrot, Coriander, and Lapsang Souchong Soup recipe uses smoky Lapsang souchong tea to add complex umami notes to a coriander-forward soup.

The Holiday Season Is Coming

Let us help you shop for everyone on your list with the 2025 Shop Local Gift Guide — a digital catalog packed with wonderful presents at all price points. It’s the ultimate handbook for finding gifts you’ll actually want to buy.

Growing the Soil of Southern New Mexico

Shahid Mustafa shares how pecan growers Josh Bowman and Wyatt Flory of Rio Gro LLC are addressing climate-related changes affecting their industry. Based in Mesquite, Rio Gro integrates regenerative agriculture into its 120-acre orchard — practices that:

• sequester carbon
• improve soil quality
• reduce erosion and runoff

Bowman uses the term “regenerative agriculture” because what they’re doing goes beyond sustainability. “It’s about more than just sustaining because it truly is doing something new.”

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