Garden Fair Exhibitors

Local Santa Fe-area non-profits presenting their community services to the gardening community.

Ampersand Sustainable Learning Center - Ampersand is a 38-acre learning center and demonstration site in New Mexico’s high desert. For two decades, we’ve lived with our ecological designs and low-cost technologies. These have provided resiliency in harsh climate conditions. Our home and learning center systems are engineered to be self-sustaining, including rainwater catchment, solar ovens, solar water heaters, dehydrators for food preservation, greywater and composting circular waste systems, self-regulating earthen structures, and rainwater-harvesting microclimates for food and habitat. This is paired with our larger ecological restoration projects, which repair the surrounding land and improve our local Madrid Watershed. Since 2008, we have provided educational and experiential opportunities: multi-month live-in internships, weekly apprenticeships for locals, extended-term residencies and apprenticeships, and, most recently, online mentorship courses.

Audubon Society Southwest - Bird conservation non-profit promoting planting native plants for birds.

Growing Soil Health Collective - Education and Promotion of Soil Food Web approaches to Soil Health.

Native Plant Society of New Mexico - nonprofit - education and conservation of native plants.

Ciudad Soil & Water Conservation District - New Mexico Backyard Refuge Program. Community habitat restoration.

Santa Fe Botanical Garden - a small non-profit garden that features native plants mixed with appropriate non-natives, which are all selected to demonstrate the variety and richness that can be achieved in this region of scarce water. The site is approximately 19 acres, of which over 8 acres are developed.

New Mexico Healthy Soil Working Group - The NM Healthy Soil Working Group is assembling a powerful network of agriculture and conservation organizations, urban and rural residents, consumers and producers alike, with the goal to significantly accelerate soil health stewardship in the state.