From hundreds of hours spent in community conversation and brainstorming, the vision of The Commons Center for Food Security and Sustainability was born. The infrastructure of this project is The Commons located at 501 E 13th St, Silver City, NM.
Opened in April 2012, the vision was that The Commons would provide emergency and supplemental food distribution, indoor and outdoor teaching space, community gardens, greenhouses, commercial kitchen, and serve as a demonstration site for permaculture principles, water catchment, solar and green building, culturally and geographically appropriate food and herb growing, seed saving and plant starts, social enterprise, and sustainable economic development.
The goal was to use locally grown, healthy, nutritious foods as the building blocks of transformational change.“In bringing forth life from the earth, we sow the seeds of hope and opportunity. When we build gardens together, we build community together; when we feed each other, we feed ourselves; with our hands in the soil together, we are all connected.
Our mission is to meet the immediate needs of Grant County residents who are food insecure and strive to build community around the concepts of food justice, local self-sufficiency and sustainability.
