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Anna Mulé, Executive Director, and Mara Welton, Director of Programs of Slow Food USA, talk about 2021 achievements, and themes and activities planned for 2022.

Excerpts from a presentation with Eugene Pickett, owner/operator of Black Farmers and Ranchers New Mexico, Regional Coordinator for the National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade Association, member of the National Rural Coalition/ Coalición Rural, New Mexico Food & Agriculture Policy Council, New Mexico Farmers Marketing Association, Albuquerque NAACP, and the New Mexico African American Chamber of Commerce.

Carolyn Donnelly, is water operations supervisor at the Bureau of Reclamation responsible for water operations on three Reclamation Projects: San Juan – Chama, Middle Rio Grande, and Carlsbad. Ms. Donnelly joins host Christine Salem to discuss the federal water management system in New Mexico.

Isabelle Jenniches, co-founder of the New Mexico Healthy Soil Working Group, discusses the option of donating tax refunds to benefit farmers, ranchers, and organizations promoting soil health. In the second half of the show, author and journalist Judith Schwartz shares how she came to see soil as a crucible for many aspects of life, from sustaining a livable climate to holding water in the landscape to serving as the basis for thriving communities.

Jannine Cabossel, the Tomato Lady, joins hosts Christine Salem and Alexa Bradford the last Saturday of each month with a to-do list and tips for the coming month in the vegetable garden.

Host Christine Salem in conversation with Dagmar Llewellyn, a hydrologist and civil engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation in Albuquerque's Water Management Division. Ms. Llewellyn leads projects relating to projecting the impacts of climate change with emphasis on Rio Grande and Pecos River watersheds.

Tsiporah Nephesh, Executive Director of NM Thrives, discusses the economic impact of nonprofit organizations in New Mexico and the need to amend the anti-donation clause of the NM Constitution

Jannine explores the concept of Terroir, a French term used to describe the complete natural environment in which particular wines are produced. She discusses adapting the concept to local vegetable gardening.

Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg talk with ethnobotanist, agroecologist and author Gary Paul Nabhan about the impact of climate change on food and growing practices in the American Southwest.