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Reunity Resources
Reunity Resources was founded with the knowledge that community-scale change is necessary for climate resilience. We create effective closed-loop systems that allow our community to participate in active solutions. We further these practices through environmental education, community engagement, and local food systems advocacy to sow seeds for broader scale participation in and replication of these principles.
Reunity began with a borrowed truck and a biodiesel class at the Santa Fe Community College. Tejinder, newly fascinated with biodiesel technology,and Juliana, a teacher and environmentalist, decided to try something out and start a program that would turn waste streams into something of value here in Santa Fe. Reunity has grown program by program since 2011, responding to community needs and building closed loop systems that rescue food waste, create compost, grow food, donate food and educate our community through camps and workshops.
Financials
Programs
Food Access
Hunger is both an immediate and a long term issue, and when it comes to food security within our state, we need to continue building capacity to grow, preserve and distribute food for our population right here. As such, we have a multipronged approach to solving hunger, from direct farm fresh food donations, to prepared meals, to collaborating to provide staple foods to leveraging public funding to improve free meals given in schools and senior centers.
Community Farming
We grow food according to healthy soil principles and without chemicals. We host regular volunteer opportunities as well as paid interns from YouthWorks!, Santa Fe Community College, Future Focused Education and College to Careers Pathways. Food from our farm goes to the Food Depot, the Santa Fe Indigenous Center, Many Mothers, the Santa Fe Refugee Collaborative and to the community through our farm stand and free 24/7 community fridge.
Composting!
We divert over 5 million pounds of waste from the landfill annually to create compost. This prevents methane production in landfills and produces an essential soil amendment, especially here in the high desert. When we add compost to desert soils, we improve the soils ability to hold water, sustain life and grow food!
Education on the Farm
With Farm Camp, Field Trips, Tours and Workshops, we provide many ways to engage and learn on the farm. Over 400 children attend camp each summer, and we work with approximately 30 classrooms each year to connect their core curriculum standards to real-life processes on the farm. And touch-taste-smell our way through the fields as we go!
Volunteering + Events
Volunteer at Reunity
Join is in our ongoing volunteer opportunities to help in the fields and/or stock the community fridge.
Events and Farm Stand Volunteering!
We always need extra hands for community events and supporting our farm stand! Send an email to [email protected] if you'd like to connect about these opportunities.
