Soil to Supper is funded through the USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program and project partners include Quivira Coalition with Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance (SWGLA), Good Meat Project, and Reunity Resources.
The Good Meat Project is a 501(c)3 national nonprofit with the mission to catalyze marketplace innovation, connection, and education across the meat supply chain in order to increase the economic viability and positive ecological impact of livestock farmers who invest in healthy land, animals, and people. The Good Meat Project believes that Good Meat® values include care for land, animals, and people, transparency from start to finish, as well as nourishment and community.
Through Soil to Supper, the Good Meat Project will provide educational resources and technical assistance tools that include one-on-one office hours for marketing support, as well as build a trade promotion campaign and playbook that walks producers through the process of promoting livestock products produced through this grant.
Quivira Coalition builds soil, biodiversity, and resilience on western working landscapes. We foster ecological, economic, and social health through education, innovation, and collaboration. At the foundation of all our work is the concept that well managed working rangelands and forests are two of the most effective, efficient, and immediately viable paths to remedy the devastating impacts of climate change.
Quivira will support each producer to steward them through the process: they will conduct a site visit to gather information, introduce the producer to the other partners and contractors, help with logistics of purchasing/delivery/etc., help organize a workshop, complete the monitoring, and maintain and provide all documentation.
Quivira staff are skilled at planning participatory educational activities and demonstrations.
Reunity Resources is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that runs a two-acre urban farm and soil+compost yard in Santa Fe, NM, promoting a closed-loop, localized food system for equitable food access and sustainable land stewardship. Reunity has been a leader in diverting organic waste from the landfill using composting techniques suited to dryland agriculture. Their staff are trained in sourcing and processing waste, constructing and maintaining composting and other soil health and farm infrastructure, and educating the community about the benefits of composting as well as training others to compost at multiple scales (from single family to acres-scale operations).
Through Soil to Supper, Reunity Resources’ staff will provide on-site and remote technical support to set up and maintain composting operations suited to the individual producer and community context.
SWGLA is a non-profit alliance of ranchers, farmers, consumers, chefs, land managers, conservationists, and researchers who work together to support local grassfed livestock products. Through public outreach, producer support, applied research, education and cooperation, they work to improve ecological, social, animal and human health. They offer education, training, outreach and networking opportunities – collaborating with other groups in the livestock, land management, and environmental sectors. They provide digital resources, sponsor events, and offer marketing opportunities for member producers, beginning and experienced. They teach consumers about the options for buying local grassfed meat, introducing them to local producers and strengthening the grassfed community of the Southwest.
Through Soil to Supper, SWGLA will work closely with Bighorn Branding to provide one-on-one and cohort technical support in business planning and grazing planning.
Soil to Supper
A Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Project
1413 Second Street, Suite 1
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
505-820-2544