Mother Nature Center

09/11/2024

Join Us for “Water Is Love: Ripples of Regeneration bb” : Film Screening & Community Conversation 💦SANTA FE, N.M. – Santa Fe Watershed Association, All Aboard Earth, Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute, Mother Nature Center, and Rotary Club of Santa Fe are excited to announce a special community screening of the award-winning documentary, “Water Is Love: Ripples of Regeneration,” on Wednesday, November 13 at 7 p.m. This event will take place at the Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe located at 1050 Old Pecos Trail.
💦The screening is sliding scale $5-20 and open to the public, offering a unique opportunity for community members to come together and explore the vital role of water in our lives and the urgent need for water conservation to be a part of the climate change debate. 

“Water Is Love: Ripples of Regeneration” is a poignant documentary that delves into the intricate relationship between communities and their water sources. The film highlights the challenges faced by various communities worldwide in ensuring sustainable water management and showcases inspiring stories of resilience and regeneration.

23/07/2024

Calling SANTA FE!
Is anyone interested in helping harvest Saturday morning in Santa Fe? We'd love to have you! Sign Up HERE: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/QWGThkoP2wefRj36Bk3URA?t=1721748802

20/07/2024

We do not give out homeowner addresses. Instead you will be emailed a location to meet your Lead Harvester a minimum of 15 minutes prior to the scheduled harvest. Please be prompt to factor in travel time.  Volunteers will then carivan to the harvest location with their Lead Harvester. 

18/05/2024

Meet the beaver, our 21st Century Eco-Hero.

Join us this Saturday as we launch a pilot Summer Bosque Awareness discovery series with a focus on our native New Mexico beaver, both urban and wild. This first talk will introduce you to all the ecological benefits of beavers to rebuild climate resilience with an emphasis on our endangered Rio Grande.

In this presentation of our discovery series, you’ll learn about future talks and walks with guest professionals who will answer your questions while they peak your curiosity. We look forward to your participation and collaboration as we all pilot a series for inquisitive eco-engagement.

Ramsey Lofton, speaker and series coordinator, is a Tree Steward with Tree New Mexico. She is a UNM retiree with 35 years of community arts education and outreach.

Date and Time: May 18th 9:30 am – 11:00 am

Location: Bachechi Open Space (9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87114 - Environmental Education Building. Parking locations: Alameda Lot & limited parking at Rio Grande Lot)

18/05/2024

If you missed this historical event last year for Indigenous People's Day, the Santa Fe Indigenous Center will be hosting the Honoring Native Nations Powwow on the Santa Fe Plaza again this year!

So mark your calendars 📅 on October 14th, we will begin this wonderful day with an opening prayer and land acknowledgement at 9am!

29/04/2024

Out on an animal tracking & nature studies hike we found these familiar friends as we traversed above and below the recent snow line following Turkey and Bear.

Slow ambling brought us within 20yards of some living turkeys and the speed we were moving did some good work on our minds as our thoughts cleared the dust of the city and we pondered again humans healthy role with the natural world.

25/04/2024

Dear men…

11/04/2024

Saturday, April 20th 10am-1pm CEA Open House highlighting CEA and Culinary students! Please spread the word and come visit! 6401 Richards Ave Santa Fe!

10/04/2024

Oren and the many chiefs and clan mothers he speaks for has and continues to be an orienting force for us at MNC. Always a clear, simple and perpetually powerful message. A good message that when held up against the trials humanity is facing we can see the many benefits of taking action along his orientations.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Oren Lyons for standing up today and reminding us: We have a big fight on our hands now, to save this planet and save the natural home of all our community - plants, animals, water and air- not just humans! Thank you for reminding us that PEACE is the only way we will accomplish this. We must unify around these good goals, and walk together into the future, whatever it brings. We trust in your knowledge, and we follow you on this path.

09/04/2024

Looking forward to seeing you all at Native Earth Day on the 19th. 🌎🌱

We invite the Native Community to join us as we celebrate 2024 Native Earth Day at the Santa Fe Indigenous Center on April 19 from 10am to 12pm at 1420 Cerrillos Road. Bring the family!

Pick up a wide variety of vegetable, flower and herb seeds provided by the Traditional Native American Farmers Association, Native Seeds/SEARCH , Paynes Nursery North, Mother Nature Center and Pueblo Resurgents.

-The Mother Nature Center staff will be present with seedlings, starter kits, Johnson SU compost, and organic local quinoa.
-Pick up a gift card from Reunity Resources, redeemable at their Farm Store for food or other products including soil or compost.
-The Santa Fe Children's Museum join us and will provide a bird feeder activity kit for kids.
-Pueblo Resurgent of Isleta Pueblo will demonstrate use of a "Cool Box" for food storage and raised bed gardening.
-George Toya of Jemez Pueblo and Farming Manager for Nambe Pueblo will be present to answer questions about NM farming.

08/04/2024

See you at Earth Day 2024 🌎 🌱

Mark your calendars because the Earth Day 2024 at the Railyard Park Celebration is around the Corner! 🌎🎉

APRIL 20TH, 2024
10AM - 2PM

Join the RPC and more than a dozen community partners for a free Earth Day event celebrating Healthy Soils in The Railyard Park! Enjoy various family-friendly activities, including Graze Days, Live Music, Worm Fun, Seed Ball Making, Composting Demos, Public Art, Face Painting, and more!

05/04/2024

Fly well brother Chalo. Many good times we had planting seeds, tending the plants and living close to the land. You were such a passionate man with a reverence for Mother Earth. We will miss you and can still feel your spirit in the wind soaring big lines in the sky. You were a man that carried the teachings and worked to embody land stewardship and community building and making space for all species. You were also an inspiration to so many and supported many great initiatives in the world. Glad to have walked by your side at different moments over the years.

Chalo Li Wells Once upon a time Chris Wells was pushing me to do a camp for young men in northern New Mexico. The Tracking Project was just beginning to do youth camps and work with Native youth and elders.

We called it Hawkeye Training and held the first year at the Lama Foundation. Chalo came to camp that first year and we took this classic "Uncle / Nephew" photo.

He came to Hawkeye three or four more times and in 2000 came on as a staff member.

We had plenty of years to connect since that time, mostly by phone when he was down in Mexico or traveling.

A few weeks ago, In early February , Chalo called. He was saying "All I want to do is go traveling with you, Uncle, maybe go to Hawai'i or Tahiti and we can do a healing and say the Thanksgiving Address..."

Sorry we never got to do that, Chalo, but we did a lot of cool things together and you will be with me forever.

Aloha