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October 2022

New Mexico

2 men on stage with a USA flag behind them wearing cowboy hats blue jeans & boots - one with a jacket & holding a mic while the other is in a T-shirt and has an artificial right arm prostheticA woman with shoulder-length white hair wearing glasses a bright print blouse & dark slacks riding a caterpillar-tracked wheelchair on a green lawnOn September 27 and September 28, NM AgrAbility partnered with National AgrAbility to hold a two-day conference at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) with informative presentations focused on the needs of food producers who are Native American, but open to all. Presentation topics included:

A man on the left showing a woman in a caterpillar-tracked wheelchair how to operate it while a man & 4 women look on from the rightA man and 2 women seated at a red-draped table looking at the screen behind them that has a Zoom image of a man at an AgrAbility display table. 2 women signing for the deaf are in the right side of the pic.Sixty-nine people attended all or part of the conference. Attendees were highly interactive and asked great questions.tive and asked great questions.

Submitted by New Mexico AgrAbility Project