Celebrate our diversity. Discover our history.
"Inside this edition, we look at the traditional usage of our forests. Water, wood and pasture were resources to be shared fairly by everyone so the entire community could survive. Remedios (natural medicines) like osha were carefully harvested from the surrounding forests and preserved to treat illness. Coveted piñon nuts and wild game augmented whatever crops and livestock the settlers could harvest in a given year. Perhaps above all, firewood remains a lynchpin of life in Northern New Mexico. In Taos County alone, the demand for firewood exceeds 12,000 cords per year.
We go behind the scenes and discover the lowrider culture of the Española Valley. For the uninitiated, lowriders are a post-WWII phenomenon that sprung up in Chicano communities across California and subsequently migrated east to, among other places, New Mexico. The cars are known for their modified suspensions. Hence, their bodies graze the pavement with mere inche
